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

— Nina Fedoroff

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because…

— Frank Press

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for…

— Edward Abbey

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

— W. H. Auden

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

— Michael Crichton

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

— Anne Roe

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson