Application Quote by Steven Weinberg

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

— Anonymous

One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

— Martin Rees

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

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

— Anonymous

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher