Scientific Governance Quotes

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

A free society of scholars should be governed by scholars and scientists—not administrators, and even the term “organization” should be banned.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.