Academic Quote by Juan Cole

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

— Philip Kitcher

“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to…

— Masao Maruyama

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.”

— J.C. Ryan

“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

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as…

— C. V. Raman

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

— Ro Khanna

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

— Peter Medawar