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Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out…

— David Suzuki

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is…

— Anthony Standen

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

— Wendy Kaminer

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea that they…

— Anthony Standen

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

“Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers.…

— Carl Sagan

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

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then…

— Ben Goldacre

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them,…

— David Suzuki

We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline…

— David Harsanyi