Majority Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's…

— Philip Kitcher

“There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

“Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy…

— Bill Maher

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all,…

— Bertrand Russell

“science should be question driven, not methodology driven.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just…

— Alan Stern

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now…

— Sam Harris

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

— Bill Maher

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

— Nick Matzke