Democracy Quote by Luis Walter Alvarez

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all -…

— Jerome Frank

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

— Al Gore

Politics is more difficult than physics.

— Albert Einstein

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because…

— Douglas Adams

“after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good…

— Walter Isaacson

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic…

— Richard M. Weaver

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the…

— Albert Einstein

“I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly…

— Malala Yousafzai

“...that kind of skeptical questioning, don't accept what authority tells you -attitude of science- is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary…

— Carl Sagan