Professional Discourse Quotes

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.

Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

I have always liked to have face-to-face talks with my bosses.