Science Manipulation Quotes

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Big Soda employs Washington lobbyists. Big Soda throws money at science and scientists. Big Soda pays for and defends "pouring rights" in elementary schools, high schools and universities. And Big Soda continues to insist its products offer an excellent source of "hydration," which is a little like saying smoking fulfills the basic human need to inhale. Big Soda knows what it's doing.

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.