Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes "scientific progress" in many areas.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Since books are not their primary source materials, as they are for research in the humanities, most scientists prefer to spend their time on experiments and not on reading.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Scientists are not known for the graces of courtesy and tact when commenting on the work of others.

[S]cientific writing is abhorrently stylized and places a premium on poor quality.

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

The trouble with theorists is, they never pay attention to the experiments!

It would seem that Perceptrons has much the same role as The Necronomicon -- that is, often cited but never read.

Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

"Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means."

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.