Lewis M. Branscomb: Quotes about science

Lewis M. Branscomb is physicist and science policy advisor. Explore interesting quotes on science.
Lewis M. Branscomb: 26   quotes 1   like

“I believe that there are very few scientists who deliberately falsify their work, cheat on their colleagues, or steal from their students. On the other hand, I am afraid that a great many scientists deceive themselves from time to time in their treatment of data, gloss over problems involving systematic errors, or understate the contributions of others. These are the 'honest mistakes' of science. The scientific equivalent of the 'little white lie' of social discourse. The scientific community has no way to protect itself from sloppy or deceptive literature except to learn whose work is suspect as unreliable.”

Lewis M. Branscomb

(1994, p. 44) cited in: Leonard Brand (1997) Faith, reason, and earth history
Integrity in Science (1985)

Lie , Way , Error , Communication

“Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.”

Lewis M. Branscomb

1994, p. 45
Integrity in Science (1985)

School , Teachers , Science

“I distinguish two kinds of "applied" research: problem-solving research — government or commercially initiated, centrally managed and institutionally coupled to a plan for application of the results, useful science — investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated. Then we have basic science — useful also, also investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated.”

Lewis M. Branscomb

Source: Confessions of a Technophile (1994), p. 31

Communication , Problem , Science

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

Lewis M. Branscomb

Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993) Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

Science

“Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.”

Lewis M. Branscomb

Branscomb (2012) in: " Scientist Lewis M. Branscomb Gives $1 Million Gift to Found New Center for Science and Democracy at UCS http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/scientist-lewis-branscomb-center-science-democracy-ucs-1385.html" at ucsusa.org/news, April 30, 2012

Science

“The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision."”

Lewis M. Branscomb

[Lewis M. Branscomb, Confessions of a technophile, Springer, 1997, 1563961180, 3]

People , Science , Dependency