Quotes About Research

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.

and they were the subjects of what would become one of the most famous psychological studies in history. For the rest of his life, Terman watched over his charges like a mother hen. They were tracked

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.

Heath wrote up his findings in a now-famous article for the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

talked to every person aged twenty-one

some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma. They gathered together the death certificates from residents of the town, going back as

his students and colleagues from Oklahoma. They gathered together the death certificates from residents of

What Borgenicht was getting in his eighteen-hour days was a lesson in the modern economy. He was learning market research. He was learning manufacturing. He was learning how to negotiate with imperious Yankees. He was learning how to plug himself into popular culture in order to understand new fashion trends.

all that much. 3 Clear first described his ideas some years ago in a research paper entitled

In one of the earliest studies of blackouts, an alcohol researcher named Donald Goodwin gathered ten men from an unemployment line in St. Louis, gave them each the better part of a bottle of bourbon over a four-hour period, then had them perform a series of memory tests. Goodwin writes

Many of those who study alcohol no longer consider it an agent of disinhibition. They think of it as an agent of myopia.

But Tim Levine's research suggests that they aren't random—that we have built a world that systematically discriminates against a class of people who, through no fault of their own, violate our ridiculous ideas about transparency.

If diet and exercise didn't explain the findings, then what about genetics?

When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced. They went to conferences where their peers were presenting long rows of data arrayed in

I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to find the secret of his success.

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.