All Quoted

  • March 17, 2017

    “China has no need to draw on any distant past for a template of its ambitions, attitudes, or enterprises.”

    —Pamela Kyle Crossley, the Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History in ChinaFile

  • March 16, 2017

    “In my work over the last 10 years I have moved toward using cast light as a sculptural material.”

    —Soo “Sunny” Park, associate professor of studio art in The Commons

  • March 15, 2017

    “There is zero in the data for the real economy supporting such an increase. There is huge uncertainty in what will happen on the fiscal front.”

    —David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics in City A.M.

  • March 14, 2017

    “Adam Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ going way back said defense is more important than opulence, so economists have always recognized that.”

    —Douglas Irwin, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences in NPR

  • March 13, 2017

    “There are major challenges in energy, the environment, in health care, the list goes on—and we need to put as many talented minds toward solving them as we can.”

    —Joseph Helble, dean of Thayer School of Engineering in GoodCall

  • March 10, 2017

    “It is effectively saying that the practice of peer review, the gold standard of how science moves to policymakers, is secretive and can’t be trusted.”

    —Melody Brown Burkins, adjunct professor of environmental sciences and associate director of programs and research at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in Wired

  • March 9, 2017

    “So for me, recovery means finding each of our own extraordinary reasons for getting up in the morning. What gets you out of bed every morning? What puts a smile on your face?”

    —Patricia Deegan, adjunct professor of community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in The Daily Observer

  • March 8, 2017

    “While I’m less confident than I was five years ago, I’m still betting on democracy.”

    —John Carey, professor of government and the John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences in The Boston Globe

  • March 7, 2017

    “Firms are very clever at doing this. If you put a tariff on a particular product category, they can with a small adjustment get classified as a different product and get around the tariff.”

    —Douglas Irwin, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences in The Washington Post

  • March 6, 2017

    “Ultimately, your reputation is a complex thing.”

    —Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Business in The Washington Post

  • March 3, 2017

    “The White House must know it has to get it exactly right this time. When this ban is released, more lawsuits are coming. To lose a second time would be devastating.”

    —Linda Fowler, professor of government and the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair in Policy Studies, Emerita in The New York Times

  • March 2, 2017

    “There’s a sense now that clean-water regulation and ideas like the value of diversity in business, which are central to what we do, are suddenly under attack, and we can’t afford to lose them.”

    —Andrew King, professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business in The Wall Street Journal

  • March 1, 2017

    “It looks like they (the Federal Reserve) are making the same mistakes they made in 2008.”

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

  • February 28, 2017

    “I think it’s so important for young people to be exposed to stories that are representative so they know that they’re not invisible.”

    —Kaya Thomas ’17 in Salon

  • February 27, 2017

    “Work holds the promise of supporting and promoting health. It also carries the risk of injury, illness, and death.”

    —Robert McLellan, professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in Fosters.com

  • February 24, 2017

    “The problem is that we are too credulous of news that reinforces our predispositions and too critical of sites that contradict them.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in The Christian Science Monitor

  • February 23, 2017

    “With the human stories, there currently is no hard or definitive evidence that Toxoplasma causes behavioral changes at this time. But it makes for really nice and sometimes fearful stories that are widely publicized.”

    —David Bzik, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine in The Huffington Post

  • February 22, 2017

    “The highlight of any engineer’s career is seeing your technology in the hands of a happy user.”

    —Eric Fossum, professor of engineering in U.S. News & World Report

  • February 21, 2017

    “For most people, eating fish is part of a healthy diet. But questions remain about the possible impact of mercury in fish.”

    —Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine in U.S. News & World Report

  • February 20, 2017

    “The moral choice of how science is used rests with those who retain the power to decide how science is used.”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in NPR

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