Able Quote by Nina Hagen

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

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

— Nina Fedoroff

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out…

— David Suzuki

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have…

— John F. Kennedy

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some…

— Martin Rees

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

— Laurie David

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates

“Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an…

— Daniel Gardner

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth…

— Hans Eysenck

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