Wil S. Hylton Quotes

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

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

Who does science determines what science gets done.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

Let’s end President Bush’s war on science—muzzling the scientists and taking information off websites.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.