Protect Quote by John Charles Polanyi

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

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 surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the…

— Martin Rees

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

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

— Michael F. Jacobson

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and…

— Robert Winston

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

— Joseph Rotblat

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Anne Roe

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll

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