Backgrounds Quote by Margaret Thatcher

…science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

— Carl Phillips

“No amount of science will stop a politician.”

— John Sacklin

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Chris Ferguson brought up a really interesting point that I agree with, and he said science is a human endeavor. The more someone tells…

— Jason Schreier

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical…

— Steven Weinberg

“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic…

— Michael Innes

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

— Glenn T. Seaborg

“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

“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