Quotes About Research

And rightly. Isn't there something to be researched, in every corner of God's creation? Isn't that what you've found, miss, in your travels?

fair reading": determining the application of a governing text to given facts on the basis of how a reasonable reader, fully competent in the language, would have understood the text at the time it was issued. The endeavor requires aptitude in language, sound judgment, the suppression of personal preferences regarding the outcome, and, with older texts, historical linguistic research.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.

The participant of a reality show ought to do a lot of research not only for the content but also for the real intent of the top judges, sponsors and the program makers to be first getting selected and then staying and growing there as contestant.

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

And in a long-term study completed in April 2015, researchers in Norway found that toddlers who consistently slept less than ten hours a night developed more emotional and behavioral problems by age five.

We do not want to be like the scientist who takes his umbrella with him to go study the rain.

What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"? A lack of desire to publish, mainly.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

Natural language processing (NLP) research aims to enable computers to interpret and react to human languages.

When working in the archive you will often find yourself thinking of this exploration as a dive, a submersion, perhaps even a drowning … you feel immersed in something vast, oceanic.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

I walked away from the people and job I knew and loved and the excitement of being near the action of politics and policymaking. Why? Because I did the research in this book and committed to myself to following the implications.

Coming face-to-face with people who hold discriminatory attitudes often breaks down their bigotry. This is consistent with a growing body of research that confirms much of what LaPiere discovered all those decades ago.

Research shows that insults actually intensify people's opposition to one's point of view.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.