Quotes About Research

Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

We must free science and medicine from the grasp of politics.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I'm reminded of the famous attorney who was asked if luck played any part in success at trial and he said yes, and it usually comes at three in the morning when I'm in the library doing research.

Thanks to Blast data, researchers now know that natural walking speed is one of the most accurate predictors of mortality that we have. The slower you walk, statistically speaking, the sooner you are likely to check out.

In the Sea of Japan, 500 million Nomurai jellyfish—each more than two meters in diameter—are clogging fishing nets; a region of the Bering Sea is so full of jellies that it's been renamed "Slime Bank." "Jellyfish grow faster and produce more young in warmer waters," one researcher explained.

This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.

Research in psychology backs me up: People who spend money on time-saving purchases experience greater life satisfaction, regardless of their income.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.