Quotes About Research

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

If you believe that the dollars made by the pharmaceutical industry are plowed back into research that leads to better and better medications, you probably believe in the tooth fairy as well.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

But research shows that rumination does exactly the opposite: our ability to solve problems actually deteriorates markedly during rumination.

really did the research in phases, before, during, and after I'd finished the manuscript. It wasn't until the end of the writing that I went to Munich to check all of my facts, especially little things, like the seasonal habits of apple trees! (Liesel and Rudy's apple-stealing needed to occur in the right month.) I

La investigación es, o debe ser, una ciencia exacta y debería recibir un tratamiento igual de frío y objetivo. Tú has intentado revestirlo de romanticismo, lo cual tiene prácticamente el mismo resultado que si hubieras urdido una historia de amor o hubieras acudido al quinto axioma de Euclides.