# Quote — Connie Willis, Bellwether

> Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.

- Author: [Connie Willis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis.md)
- Book: [Bellwether](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/bellwether.md)
- Page: 151
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Connie_Willis#Bellwether_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/bellwether/managementll-never-go-for

## More from this book

> “What’s going on?” I whispered to Gina.
>
> “Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.”

p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/bellwether/whats-going-on-i-whispered.md)

> You shouldn’t be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that’s what science is all about.

p. 226 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/bellwether/you-shouldnt-be-looking.md)

> “My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,” Shirl said, “he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.”

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/bellwether/my-physics-teacher.md)