Emily Calandrelli Quotes

When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.

We don’t need 1 million nuclear scientists, but we do need 100 million citizens who are knowledgeable about how science affects their lives.

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

Politics is not a game. It exists to resolve the largest questions of the society.

Whenever you involve scientists with politicians there is a struggle.

Those bureaucrats who are shrewd analysts of human nature, then, and who understand the way rulers operate, will, if they see that the cherished policy of their President is in grave error, tend to keep their mouths shut, and let some other sucker be the messenger of bad news and get shot down.

Social science has been established not to set policy but to measure its results.

You can’t start a conversation about public policy by saying it is complex.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

I don’t know anyone in government who would read the academic journals that policy school professors get rewarded for publishing in.