Science free of social influence?

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Elliot

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I'm writing a paper on how science is influenced by the social context, and I really want to start off with a quote. Does anyone know of a quote that says that the goal of science is to be free of social influences, and to be strictly factual?

Thanks for any help!
 
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
— Bertrand Russell
The Impact of Science on Society

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
— J. Michael Bishop

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
— Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790, 2005), 54.
 
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