Causes Quote by Peter Agre

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes…

— Peter Agre

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading…

— James Bryant Conant

“For us, scientific literacy constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues. It is a mix of facts, vocabulary, concepts, history, and philosophy.…

— Robert M. Hazen

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and…

— Massimo Pigliucci

Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on…

— Isaac Asimov

One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly…

— Noam Chomsky

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about…

— Mark Powell