All Quoted

  • July 19, 2017

    “If a single symbol for the Trump presidency can stand the test of popular imagination, his proposed wall for the U.S. border with Mexico might be the strongest contender.”

    —Ivy Schweitzer, professor of English and women’s and gender studies in Los Angeles Review of Books

  • July 18, 2017

    “There’s a real risk that inflation expectations have already drifted down and might drift down further.”

    —Andrew Levin, professor of economics in Bloomberg

  • July 17, 2017

    “In spite of the fact that the ice shelf itself doesn’t contribute to sea level rise, the loss of the ice shelf as a buttressing effect does indirectly result in sea level rise because of these accelerated glaciers.”

    —Robert Hawley, associate professor of earth sciences in Popular Science

  • July 13, 2017

    “To me, what’s fascinating is that consciousness is what makes the universe exist.”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy in NPR

  • July 12, 2017

    “I hadn’t come to the Cyclades for the famous islands. I was there for me. The invitation to join my friends there had showed me a simple truth about myself: I never took real vacations.”

    —Alexander Chee, associate professor of English in The New York Times

  • July 11, 2017

    “The genie was let out of the bottle long ago, and arguably, the stability of society depends on our finding ways to work creatively with machines while simultaneously remaining vigilant as well as open to their potential.”

    —Dan Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, and Michael Casey, the James Wright Professor of Music in Slate

  • July 10, 2017

    “Returning to the basics provides graduates the tools to unlock their potential. Plus, a notebook is a lot cheaper than a new car, and yet it will take them further.”

    —Gail Ayala Taylor, clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business in The Huffington Post

  • July 7, 2017

    “I don’t like to hear talk of putting ‘boots on the ground.’ We’re not sending in shoe leather, we’re sending in sons and daughters.”

    —James Wright, president emeritus in New Hampshire Business Review

  • July 6, 2017

    “Because of the vulnerable nature of patients with mental illness, such as their susceptibility for opioid dependency and abuse, this finding warrants urgent attention to determine if the risks associated with such prescribing are balanced with therapeutic benefits.”

    —Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and orthopaedics at the Geisel School of Medicine in ClickOnDetroit

  • July 5, 2017

    “The best way to have a trade commitment enforced is to make it mutually beneficial. If we push to get the very best deal for the United States, we will push other countries to the point that they are indifferent.”

    —Robert Staiger, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences in The New York Times

  • July 3, 2017

    “The Democrats are talking about the right issues, just not in the right way.”

    —Charles Wheelan ’88 in U.S. News & World Report

  • June 30, 2017

    “A healthy amount of skepticism is always required when consuming digital images. But don’t let that skepticism overwhelm you, as it is just as easy to think that a real photo is fake, as the other way around.”

    —Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science in BBC

  • June 29, 2017

    “In my first year at Dartmouth, I learned ‘a lot about a lot,’ including a variety of disciplines, people, and most important, myself.”

    —Emerson Mahoney ’20 in The Martha’s Vineyard Times

  • June 28, 2017

    “The best test is the one that finds the cancers that are really going to matter. The goal is not to find as much cancer as possible.”

    —H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine at Geisel and at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in HealthNewsReview

  • June 27, 2017

    “The melting (of the Quelccaya Ice Cap) now underway appears to be at least as fast, if not faster, than anything in the geological record since the end of the last ice age.”

    —Meredith Kelly, associate professor of earth science in Glacier Hub

  • June 26, 2017

    “We once had a unified executive branch. We now have an agencies branch and a Trump branch.”

    —Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in Bloomberg

  • June 23, 2017

    “From 1901 to 1995, we find there was no increase. From 1996 to 2014, we’ve experienced 53 percent more extreme precipitation.”

    —Jonathan Winter, assistant professor of geography in Valley News

  • June 22, 2017

    “The pound weakened on the election news. Markets don’t like chaos.”

    —David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics in The Guardian

  • June 21, 2017

    “My goal is to make it to the bigs.”

    —Mike Danielak ’16 in Daily Herald

  • June 20, 2017

    “Bring the expertise here and continue to retain the U.S. as the pioneer in technology or research, or else production will shift wholesale to other countries.”

    —Anup Srivastava, assistant professor of business administration in HP Enterprise

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