Body Quote by Michael Polanyi

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their…

— Michael Polanyi

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of…

— Nassau William Senior

“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

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is…

— Timothy R Minnich

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers…

— Michio Kaku

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

— Anonymous

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

Science is organized knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires…

— Gerald Edelman