Authority Quote by John Charles Polanyi

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

— Nina Hagen

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

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

— Michael F. Jacobson

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society…

— John Charles Polanyi

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have…

— John F. Kennedy

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

Authority and example lead the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

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

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their…

— Michael Polanyi