Big Quote by Martin Rees

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are…

— John Maynard Smith

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

— Stephen Hawking

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

— Chuck Yeager

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

— Anonymous

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call…

— Abraham Kaplan

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

— Michael Rosbash

To be very careful about any work that may harm your early work

— Mak_786

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science…

— Bill Bryson

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious…

— Plato

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

— Ian Hacking