Quotes About Research

Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.

What he found was unsurprising.

In 2008, the national Coping with Cancer project published a study showing that terminally ill cancer patients who were put on a mechanical ventilator, given electrical defibrillation or chest compressions, or admitted, near death, to intensive care had a substantially worse quality of life in their last week than those who received no such interventions.

Ariadne Labs

It then occurs to me that I am mentally unstable. So I decided to close my office door and go online. Maybe I can do some research and find out what's wrong with my personality and then fix it.

Stacy Schiff

excluded from this collection of classic Solariana, whose only connection with the field was that for a lengthy period they researched public opinion, collecting the most ordinary views, the attitudes of non-specialists, and in this way demonstrated the astonishingly close relationship between changes in such views and processes simultaneously taking place among the ranks of scholars.

Unlike scholarly journals, mass-market advice books are rarely reviewed by experts in the field. Instead of getting tested research findings, most of the time you get what some author claims worked for him or her, or what someone thinks might work for you, or what some publisher's marketing department hopes you will think might work for you, all mixed in with "time-tested rules" that might have worked in the past but no longer hold true.

Economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers found that in states that adopted unilateral divorce, this was followed, on average, by a 20 percent reduction in the number of married women committing suicide, as well as a significant drop in domestic violence for both men and women.

Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.

Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

As often happens in science, discoveries are made in the pursuit of an elusive (and sometimes nonexistent) goal.

To do research on the fundamental laws that govern the universe would require a commitment of time that most people don't have; the

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories—the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

associates and collaborators were Roger Penrose

philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

In 2016 I joined with the entrepreneur Yuri Milner to launch Breakthrough Starshot, a long-term research and development programme aimed at making interstellar travel a reality. If we succeed, we will send a probe to Alpha Centauri within the lifetime of people alive today.