Academia Quote by Jay Griffiths

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

— James Dyson

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

— Francis Collins

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth…

— Richard Lindzen

Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so…

— David Robert Whitehouse

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that…

— Aubrey de Grey

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical…

— Steven Weinberg

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

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but…

— Eric Betzig

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

— Philip Zimbardo

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

— Donald A. Norman

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's…

— Joseph J. Romm

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

— Martin Rees