Academia Quote by Nicholas Stern

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

— Neil Steinberg

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable…

— Doug Casey

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this…

— Thomas Jefferson

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

— Carl Phillips

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of…

— Margaret Thatcher

The government's duty is to support basic sciences.

— Tasuku Honjo

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science…

— John Gibbons

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

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

— Nina Fedoroff