Also Quote by Ben Goldacre

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that…

— James Surowiecki

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

— Francois Arago

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

— Bill Foster

The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science…

— Michael Eisen

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in…

— Timothy White

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

— David Hilbert

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

— Mark Walport