Paper Quote by Derek J. de Solla Price Download Open image “Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.” — Derek J. de Solla Price ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paper Papers Science Scientist Strong Urges Writing
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists -… — David Mermin Copy Share
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are… — Derek J. de Solla Price Copy Share Image
It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we… — Derek J. de Solla Price Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image