Experiments Quote by John B. S. Haldane

“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves…

— B.F. Skinner

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should…

— Bertrand Russell

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise…

— Quentin Crisp

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it…

— Andrew Marr

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost.…

— Michael Crichton

“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics…

— Steven Pinker

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

— David Miliband

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform…

— Vaclav Klaus