Authority Quote by Serge Lang

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

— Michael F. Jacobson

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental.…

— Brian Greene

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then…

— Ben Goldacre

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them,…

— David Suzuki

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

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

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a…

— Carl Sagan

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

— Ted Gup

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note : Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine,…

— Richard Dawkins

“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their ignorance as…

— Ben Goldacre