Answers Quote by Serge Lang

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

— John Charles Polanyi

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

— Michael F. Jacobson

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

— Hope Jahren

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

— Noam Chomsky

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process…

— Michael Polanyi

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be…

— Mark Walport

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

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the…

— Martin Rees

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in…

— Serge Lang

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should…

— Albert Einstein

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a…

— Theodor Adorno

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

— John Charles Polanyi