Research Institutions Quotes

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century.

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

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.