Authority Quote by Michael Polanyi

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process…

— Michael Polanyi

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a…

— Carl Sagan

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a…

— Erwin Chargaff

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by…

— Brian Cox

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do…

— Carl Sagan

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to…

— Paul Feyerabend

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

— John Charles Polanyi