Being Quote by David Suzuki

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable…

— Doug Casey

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates

“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.”

— C.S. Lewis

Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or…

— Richard Lindzen

It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now…

— Arvind Gupta

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

— Nina Fedoroff

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the…

— Jill Stein

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's…

— Joseph J. Romm