Government Scientist Quotes

#1. Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Nigel Calder

#2. The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Johnny Ball

#3. No one will ever want you. You're too different. A killing machine. Not all human. Unworthy.- Dr. Bjord

Donna Galanti

#4. To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

Lewis Mumford

#5. I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

S.J Perelman

#6. Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

John Stossel

#7. The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

A.E. Samaan

#8. Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook ... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

John F. Kennedy

#9. I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

Sandra Lerner