Consequence Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others…

— Nathaniel Rich

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

— John Charles Polanyi

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

— Hope Jahren

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

— Felix Bloch

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to…

— Arthur William Galston

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no…

— Fran Lebowitz

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

— Michael F. Jacobson

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that…

— Noam Chomsky