Action Quote by W. H. Auden

There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation.…

— Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without…

— Isaac Asimov

“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.”

— C.S. Lewis

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for…

— Edward Abbey

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

— Nina Fedoroff

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

— Chauncey Wright

The true science and study of mankind is man.

— Pierre Charron

“The world changes the men, the man changes the world.”

— Anonymous