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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and…

— Barbara Mikulski

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

— Mark Walport

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason…

— Georges Cuvier

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

— Madame de Stael

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens…

— Neal Stephenson

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life…

— Ronald Reagan

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's…

— Anonymous

The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their…

— Stewart D. Friedman

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the…

— Melvin Calvin

Reason is the most active human faculty.

— Mary Baker Eddy