Quotes About Peer Review

#1. Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.

Chris Mooney

#2. I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

Phil Jones

#3. Government research has to go through peer review.

Peter Diamandis

#4. At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Guy Kawasaki

#5. To be a dissenter was to be unfunded because the peer-review system rewards conformity and excludes criticism,

Gary Taubes

#6. Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

Ralph Hall

#7. Peer review was an excellent system by which academics could either anonymously censor others with whom they disagreed, or hide from controversy after they signed off on truth that the public couldn't stomach.

B.C. Chase

#8. A true test of someone's love is how they act when they're stressed and not how much they love you when everything's goin' good.

T.R. Graves

#9. [T]hat question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It's meaningless.

James S.A. Corey

#10. I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Iris Murdoch

#11. A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Bill Gaede

#12. My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

Anne Lamott

#13. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

Malachy McCourt

#14. The worst problem of peer reviewing is its time consuming nature.

Eraldo Banovac

#15. Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Esther Hicks

#16. The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.

Garth Stein

#17. There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover.

A.E. Samaan

#18. Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

Arnaud Desjardins

#19. The literature [Nobel] laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.
A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted.

Sune Bergstrom

#20. Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

Bill Gaede

#21. I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

Sam Worthington

#22. College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

Bill Gaede

#23. Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

Noam Chomsky

#24. Reevaluate your abilities each time when you have been offered to review
an article. And say no thanks if the topic doesn't belong to the field of your expertise.

Eraldo Banovac