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