Case Quote by Richard Dawkins

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist…

— Richard Dawkins

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into…

— George M. Whitesides

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for…

— Edward Abbey

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

— John Desmond Bernal

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three…

— John Grant

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

— Albert Camus

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“During the war, Monod had joined the Communist Party as a matter of expediency, so that he could join the FTP. But he developed…

— Sean B. Carroll

I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.

— Freeman Dyson

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“By the time Stalin died on 5 March 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history. It was at…

— Simon Ings