Bad idea Quote by Philip Kitcher

“Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

— Philip Kitcher

The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural…

— Peter Medawar

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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

We need to take all of the science into account and not selectively choosing what science to follow when we are making policy decisions.

— Nancy Mace

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all,…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to…

— David Deutsch

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

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr