“It’s still acceptable in [the UK] for people to say, almost as an aside, while drinking their claret, ‘Of course, I don’t understand science, I did classics.’ You’re not considered to be a philistine....But [this] should be like driving around without a seatbelt….It should become just an unacceptable thing to do.”
—Brian Cox, physicist, pop musician, and TV presenter of “Wonders of the Solar System”
“We laid the ground rules—that any research we did, we would have to take total control of the data, transparency and the freedom to make those data available to other scientists and subject to peer review. They left and we never heard back from them.”
—Bob Shipp of the University of South Alabama, whose marine science department was being considered by BP to work on a restoration plan after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
“When the mantle of the squid was opened for maturity ...
