Bridge Quote by Richard Thaler

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

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate,…

— George P. Shultz

I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or…

— Gina McCarthy

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government…

— David Titley

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

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.

— Richard Thaler

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

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

— Nina Fedoroff

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