Congress Quote by Anonymous

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

— Chris Grayling

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future returns on…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science…

— Michael Nielsen

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

— Mark Walport

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of…

— Michael Polanyi

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved…

— Aubrey de Grey

We will value public engagement.

— Carrie Lam

One of our main objectives is to restore meritocracy within research and academia, where cronyism is also widespread. We also want to give money…

— Beppe Grillo

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power…

— Noam Chomsky

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous