Scholarly Output Quotes

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

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

We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

Work, finish, publish.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

Research in this country is going down.