Choices Quote by Michael Polanyi

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic…

— Michael Polanyi

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

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

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

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

— Gerhard Herzberg

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

In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other…

— Hannes Alfven

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn…

— Marin Mersenne

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

It's always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views.

— Paul Allen