Science Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Research and Knowledge

"Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is today in the hands of those utterly irresponsible regarding their role in society."

Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza

"All parties in industrialized countries, whether right or left, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a unique opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they supposedly save the world from a heat death, politicians even receive applause for it. No party will resist this temptation."

Nigel Calder

"Climate disclosures must become comprehensive, climate risk management must be transformed, and sustainable investments must become mainstream. Companies that anticipate these developments will be generously rewarded. Those that don't will cease to exist."

Mark Carney

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

George Orwell

"Auch wenn es sicher richtig ist, daß eine radikale eugenische Politik für viele Jahre politisch und psychologisch unmöglich sein wird, wird es für die UNESCO wichtig sein, dafür zu sorgen, daß das eugenische Problem mit der größten Sorgfalt geprüft und die Öffentlichkeit über das fragliche Thema informiert wird, damit vieles, was heute undenkbar erscheint, wenigstens wieder denkbar wird."

Julian Huxley

"As Hannah Arendt states, totalitarianism is ultimately the logical extension of a generalized obsession with science, the belief in an artificially created paradise: “Science [has become] an idol that will magically cure the evils of existence and transform the nature of man.”"

Mattias Desmet

"The implications of transferring full sovereignty from individual nations to a world organization. Political unity in some form of world government will be necessary. Even if... any radical eugenic policy will be politically and psychologically impossible for many years, one must proceed with utmost care and inform the public about the issues at stake, so that much of what is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."

Julian Huxley

"A well-packaged statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" which misleads you, but it cannot be pinned on you."

Darrell Huff

"If people knew the true history of the vaccine industry, there would be a revolution overnight."

Ben Tapper

"A physical law must possess mathematical beauty,"

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

"As such, science stumbles upon an unknowable and mysterious essence that escapes logical explanation and which can be described only in the language of poetry and metaphor."

Mattias Desmet

"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."

Mattias Desmet

"Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science."

Steven Spielberg

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Henry Louis Mencken

"There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it."

Henry Louis Mencken

"There are questions to which people want answers but cannot find them. It is a misconception to think that these questions will disappear as science advances."

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Sometimes it’s the people no one can imagine doing things no one can imagine doing."

Alan Mathison Turing

"Good ideas are always crazy until they're not."

Lawrence Edward Page