Artificial Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

— Alan Alda

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the…

— Vivian Gornick

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin

“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing. It is…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

— Simone Weil

“Messrs. Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I think timid…

— Stephen King

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining.…

— David Mermin

The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has…

— Anonymous

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

— Rupert Sheldrake