All Quoted

  • June 19, 2017

    “It’s an illusion to think that you can get more revenue by cutting taxes, it’s a fantasy. You cannot eat more ice cream and expect to lose weight.”

    —Charles Wheelan ’88, senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy in Daily Mail

  • June 16, 2017

    “These conspiracy theories are corrosive to trust in journalism and government, and they exacerbate hostile feelings toward the opposition. And they undermine the factual basis for democratic debate.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in WIRED

  • June 14, 2017

    “Yes, 35 of 37 of economists polled said that Trump’s tax plan would not pay for itself. But what were the other two expert economists thinking?”

    —Charles Wheelan ’88, senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy in U.S. News & World Report

  • June 13, 2017

    “We’re envisioning a center for integrated design with faculty working side by side. This sort of thing hasn’t been done very often.”

    —Joseph Helble, dean of Thayer School of Engineering in Business NH Magazine

  • June 9, 2017

    “If there's one message I could get out, it’s that the best test is not the test that finds the most cancer. That is a recipe for over-diagnosis.”

    —H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and a professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in WBUR

  • June 8, 2017

    “Why we see gender as mutable but race as fixed is ultimately very complicated and, I believe, it doesn’t do any good to insist that race and gender are totally different.”

    —Treva Ellison, assistant professor of geography and of women, gender, and sexuality studies in Ozy

  • June 6, 2017

    “We have the mechanisms to filter out things that we know are harmful on the internet, and we simply have to deploy the technology at this point.”

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

  • June 5, 2017

    “The question should not be why did I get breast cancer, but why are we getting it.”

    —Chelsey Kivland, assistant professor of anthropology in The Conversation

  • June 2, 2017

    “Regardless, Trump’s announcement sends another signal to the world that as long as he is charge, the environment will not find a friend in the United States. The silence of his party makes them complicit in this message.”

    —Daniel Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science in The Huffington Post

  • June 1, 2017

    “When considering the 2018 budget, Congress must continue to uphold and protect its bipartisan support for investment in basic and applied scientific research for the U.S. to maintain leadership in innovation.”

    —Eric Fossum, professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering in Concord Monitor

  • May 31, 2017

    “The statistics are tragic, they’re alarming, and they call for urgent action.”

    —President Phil Hanlon ’77 in U.S. News & World Report

  • May 30, 2017

    “Today, the Vietnam Wall cries out eloquently the magnitude of sacrifice, nearly 500-feet long, marked by line after line of chiseled names. Each name, in turn, whispers the record of a single life lost, and invites its own private memorial.”

    —James Wright, president emeritus in The Atlantic

  • May 26, 2017

    “When we measure the cosmic expansion, we must do it from the inside, sort of like a fish that wants to describe the ocean as a whole.”

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

  • May 25, 2017

    “It’s funny how the world of palliative care, which each day brings us face-to-face with illness, with mortality, with heartbreak, is not a place of overwhelming sadness.”

    —Kathryn Kirkland, professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in JAMA

  • May 24, 2017

    “I know it (terrorism) when I see it. But I don’t know how to define it for a software program in a way that doesn’t trigger massive amounts of false alarms.”

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

  • May 23, 2017

    “Technology contributed to the building of ideological walls, but it can also help knock them down.”

    —Daniel Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science in The Atlantic

  • May 22, 2017

    “A sense of history is more important now than ever.”

    —Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion in Valley News

  • May 19, 2017

    “Banks can conform to the letter of the law, but not meet the purpose of CRA (Community Reinvestment Act).”

    —John Vogel, adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business in The Wall Street Journal

  • May 18, 2017

    “There’s been an explosion of competent vectors, or ticks capable of transmitting, and they’ve been moving north.”

    —Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in WTPZ

  • May 17, 2017

    “In peacetime … even largely successful strikes against North Korea’s nuclear program or its conventional artillery could very well leave residual North Korean capabilities that could cause incredible amounts of damage and suffering in South Korea and possibly Japan.”

    —Daryl Press, associate professor of government in The Atlantic

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