Agendas Quote by Richard Dawkins

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan

“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize the basic…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I actually think it's a huge tactical mistake for our movement to criticize religion on the basis of the pathological extremes. Because most of…

— P.Z. Myers

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

— Martin Rees

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

— Robert MacArthur

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

“It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

— Naomi Oreskes

In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides…

— Stephen Jay Gould