Charles Vest Quotes

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.

We need to ask ourselves: What use is our scientific endeavor and innovation when they are inaccessible to the people who need them the most? It is only when the benefits of research reach the person on the lowest rung of the economic ladder that it can be considered to have delivered true value.

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

The United States is stepping up to lead the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and Congress will ensure that the president's request is fully and quickly funded.

'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.

No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'

I think that my research is valuable to my teaching. I think that the two complement each other and I'm able to present somewhat more stimulating lectures because of what's happening in research, so it's a good complement.

It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.