Balancing act Quote by Barry Barish

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

— Shirley M. Tilghman

The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases…

— Martin Rees

We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the…

— Jill Stein

Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought…

— Oren Etzioni

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

— John Wilbanks

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to…

— Hope Jahren