Cited Quotes
Words about citation, credit, and being referenced.
From Nobel-adjacent research to a pandemic-era argument over fatality figures, being "cited" means something different depending on who is doing the citing. This collection gathers lines from scientists, journalists, and public figures on what it feels like to be referenced, quoted, or invoked as proof, a theme that overlaps with our Beyond quotes page as well.
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
There is much in the result of John Chilcot's seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as 'scathing' and...
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Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk...
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
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I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its...
In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and...
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Whether it is an inquiry report cited to soften a scandal or a tribute citing a late designer's lasting influence, these lines treat citation as both a tool and a burden. Pair them with our Art quotes or Awarded quotes pages for more on legacy and recognition.
