Science Quote by David Gill

It’s the bureaucratic shrug disguised as scientific sobriety: a sentence that promises movement while studiously avoiding motion. Gill’s wording is all passive construction and process-caveats, a syntax built to keep ambition safely behind glass. “Currently” delays commitment; “feasibility stage” elevates hesitation into a respectable milestone; “has to go through that” lands like a parenthetical sigh, as if the real work is navigating procedure rather than shaping outcomes.

The intent reads as containment. If there’s public pressure to build bigger - more seats, more prestige, more modernity - Gill offers an institutional answer that sounds responsible and dull on purpose. It’s a way to lower the temperature: don’t argue with me, argue with the pipeline. The subtext is even sharper: expansion isn’t being rejected, but it also isn’t being owned. By framing the decision as “feasibility,” Gill makes uncertainty the protagonist. That’s a classic move from a scientist-administrator mindset: translate a political or financial choice into an empirical checkpoint, where delay can masquerade as rigor.

The context is almost certainly not just about bricks and bleachers. “Stadium expansion” implies civic pride, funding fights, and competing claims on public resources. In that terrain, declaring that it “has to go through” a stage signals accountability to committees, budgets, and stakeholders without exposing any personal stance. The line works because it performs neutrality: it sounds like fact, but functions like strategy. It’s the language of governance laundering desire through process, keeping everyone hopeful, and no one able to pin responsibility to a single name.