Demoralized Quote by Verlyn Klinkenborg

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

— V. S. Pritchett

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science,…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the…

— Martin Rees

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

— John B. S. Haldane

The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable…

— Hope Jahren

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

— Barbara Tuchman

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

— Josh Fox

We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the…

— Jill Stein

Now we teach our leaders that it's your job to put in the systems that enable your people to run your experiments fast and…

— Scott Cook