Answers Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do…

— Michael Crichton

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

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it.…

— George Wald

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

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are…

— Peter Medawar

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about…

— Malcolm Forbes

Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to…

— Paul Feyerabend

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry