Agenda Quote by Leonard Mlodinow Download Open image “Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.” — Leonard Mlodinow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agenda Ends Misuse Often Own Political Politicians Politics Pursue Science
“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on the assumption that there can be no political move which has no drawbacks, no undesirable consequences. To look out… — Karl Popper Copy Share
Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by… — Kane X. Faucher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it… — Martin Gardner Copy Share
From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.” — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are. — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The face of time is our agenda. our agenda is a task,task of time. to prepare is to task our agenda. preparing is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear… — David Cunliffe Copy Share Image
My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
