Research Output Quotes

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

When the U.K. and India collaborate, there is force multiplier, which is very-very strong. The force multiplier with India is much stronger than with many other countries. We get much greater impact and valued research papers when British and Indian scientists co-operate.

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

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

South Korea’s research and development output has increased from half the size of the Arab world to 20 times as large, and Israel’s research output on a per capita basis is 26 times as large as the Arab world’s.

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.