Able Quote by John Desmond Bernal

I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.

— Carolyn Porco

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in…

— Tammy Baldwin

“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?”

— Steven Magee

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

— Hannes Alfven

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

— James Randi

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

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

— Jack Horner

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey…

— Lisa Randall

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

Now we teach our leaders that it's your job to put in the systems that enable your people to run your experiments fast and…

— Scott Cook

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg