Daniel S. Greenberg

“Contrary to the misimpression that the press often conveys, science is not a tidy, orderly process. It is a process of disciplined wildness.”

“Scientific statesmanship is the ability to get the research money.”

“The myth of scientific purity, of research conducted for the sole purpose of plumbing the secrets of nature, has been so thoroughly enshrined that to challenge it is to question motherhood and the flag.”

“For the scientific enterprise, the discovery of the federal treasury was a more significant event than the discovery of the atom.”

“Washington is a city of locker-room politicians, and they are not given to talking about the soul of science.”

“Science and government are locked in a dependent, tense, and not always productive embrace.”

“The annual budget process is a ritual of supplication, exaggeration, and deception.”

“In the corridors of power, the voice of science is often a whisper.”

“There is no truth to the widely held view that the Nobel Prizes are awarded on the basis of merit.”

“Big science is a machine, and it needs fuel—which is to say, money.”