Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"We do not predict the future of medicine; we create it through understanding."Emmanuelle Charpentier
"Power without wisdom is tyranny."Fred Sanger
"Power is most dangerous in the hands of the unwise."Fred Sanger
"Power operates most effectively when it remains invisible to those it affects."Stanley Cohen
"Control in modern society is often exercised through consensus rather than coercion."Stanley Cohen
"Power does not reside in institutions; it resides in the relationships between people."Stanley Cohen
"We are all both agents of social stability and potential agents of social change."Stanley Cohen
"The power of reprogramming taught me that context and conditions matter—change the environment, change the outcome."Shinya Yamanaka
"The power of science lies not in controlling nature but in cooperating with it intelligently."Shinya Yamanaka
"The power of an idea lies in its ability to change minds."Kary Mullis
"The ability to edit genes gives us unprecedented power and unprecedented responsibility."Jennifer Doudna
"The power to edit genes comes with the duty to use it wisely."Jennifer Doudna
"The future is not something that happens to us; it's something we create through our choices today."Herbert Boyer
"We must ask ourselves: what will we do with the power our discoveries give us?"Emmanuelle Charpentier
"The most powerful tools are those that serve humanity."Emmanuelle Charpentier
"Power without responsibility is tyranny."John Kendrew
"Labels have the power to create the very conditions they purport to describe."Stanley Cohen
"Power operates through the authority to define what counts as normal."Stanley Cohen
"Every act of labeling is an exercise of social power."Stanley Cohen
"The sociology of deviance is ultimately the sociology of power."Stanley Cohen
"The sociology of deviance reveals how power operates in everyday life."Stanley Cohen
"What counts as madness depends on who has the power to define it."Stanley Cohen
"The control of deviance is an exercise in the maintenance of social power."Stanley Cohen
"Knowledge without conscience is merely power waiting to be misused."Herbert Boyer
"What we do in the laboratory today shapes what humanity becomes tomorrow."Herbert Boyer
"The power of science lies not in controlling nature, but in understanding it."Emmanuelle Charpentier
"The power of understanding biochemistry transformed medicine forever."Fred Sanger
"The power of science lies not in controlling nature, but in understanding it."Fred Sanger
"The true power of CRISPR lies not just in what we can do, but in our wisdom about what we should do."Jennifer Doudna
"When I consider the implications of genetic editing, I'm constantly struck by its potential and its peril."Jennifer Doudna