Quotes About Research

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

All kids misbehave. Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes. Does it become an occasion for judgement of their character or an occasion for teaching?

decades of experimental research have found exactly the opposite: when people vent their feelings aggressively, they often feel worse, pump up their blood pressure, and make themselves even angrier.

young social psychologist named Leon Festinger

You can look it up.

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

Sir Humphry Davy, an accomplished English chemist,

Washington-based industry lobby group, reported that in 1999 American biotech companies spent more than half of the sector's revenues, $11 billion in total, on research. No other industrial group spends anything near that proportion of total revenues on research, not even the major pharmaceutical companies, which are usually named as the world's biggest R&D spenders.

Researchers believe that the conscious cultivation of empathy, including through the reading of novels (see S. Keen), will make communication far easier and will save us from future world cataclysms. —The Journal of Community and Cortex

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.

I want to reemphasize that we're not dealing with water at the molecular level; we're dealing with crowds of water molecules. We don't yet understand water molecules

Flavonoids and polyphenols. These substances—found in virtually all fruits and vegetables—have been shown to have protective effects throughout the body. They've also been shown to have influence on the brain. For example, some research has shown that flavonoids may significantly decrease oxidative stress in the brain.

the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne published the results of an extensive study of international money laundering.9 The authors compared the banking systems of two hundred countries. The Vatican ranked in the top ten money laundering havens, behind Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Liechtenstein, but ahead of Singapore.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

International Resource Center on Criminal Activity

Can you give me an example of how the lack of real world experience would hurt the researcher?