Antithesis Quote by Stephen Baxter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more…

— Michael Polanyi

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

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

— Anonymous

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

— Carl Sagan

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and…

— Federica Montseny

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

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do…

— Carl Sagan

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould