Am Quote by Craig Venter

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries…

— Aaron Swartz

There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively…

— Douglas Hofstadter

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

— Wendy Kaminer

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time…

— Michael Specter

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

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

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

— Federico Fellini

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

— Derek J. de Solla Price

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

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and…

— Timothy Noah