Quotes About Press

Latour examines Pasteur and his influence in The Pasteurization of France (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.

John Hedley Brooke's Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

A work I failed to mention earlier that gives an excellent overview of the history of evolution, including evolutionary synthesis, is Peter J. Bowler's Evolution: The History of an Idea, third edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

There are several excellent general histories of scientific method. One of the most popular introductory-level books is A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, by John Losee, third edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

In 1828 the British historian Macaulay dubbed the press gallery in Parliament a 'fourth estate' of the realm. Today the news media appear to have become the first estate able to topple monarchs and turn Parliament into a talking shop which ceases to exist if journalists turn their backs.

LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that five human beings were lynched and that the matter was considered of so little importance that the powerful press bureaus of the country did not consider the matter of enough importance to ascertain the causes for which they were hanged.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.

After leaving 'Vice Magazine' a couple of years ago and working only part time on boring administration stuff, I made antagonizing the press almost my full time job.

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of that to say things they think are funny.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking for it. It takes a lecturer in media studies such as Paul Brighton to point out that media management was part of the job of a Victorian prime minister.

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.

It's been a very strange trajectory because I struggled for so many years. I mean, I was doing these videos, I was doing these live shows, I had a lot of fans in New York, the press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job, and so my father and I were really like a team.

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen, or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected flaming ant epidemic," he told the crowd. "If we amplify everything, we hear nothing. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and perhaps eczema.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

There is the press and there is entertainment. It's only when we allow them to bleed into each other that we get into difficulty.