Roger Lowenstein Quotes

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

Research professors don't watch a whole lot of TV.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

If there is a course that is quant-oriented, you need to focus on that, but if it is a course that is more general management-oriented, do you not need entrance examinations which are more all round?

I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

I'm not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.

I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.

As the saying goes, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

Reductionism is merciless.