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Quotes About Research

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
~ Author Unknown
Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.
~ Jay Leno
Another thing that cigarette smoking causes is statistics.
~ Changing Times, c.1964
I have heard experimental physicist complain sotto voce that some of the best theoreticians have largely stopped doing physics and started to indulge in what is sometimes described as 'mathematical masturbation'.
~ Graham Farmelo
Everything we've been taught about the origins of civilization may be wrong," says Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, PhD, senior geologist with the Research Center for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
~ Graham Hancock
A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual income. -- from "Eugene
~ Greg Egan
Attempting to be neutral in one's intellectual endeavors (whether research, argumentation, reasoning, or teaching) is tantamount to striving to erase the antithesis between the Christian and the unbeliever.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply.
~ Greg Mankiw
Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."
~ Greg Ray
For those who think that the NDE has been satisfactorily explained by science, their advice is sobering: "Theories proposed thus far consist largely of unsupported speculations about what might be happening during an NDE".111
~ Greg Taylor
Tüm bilgilerin özünde iyi ara?t?rma yatar.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
~ Guthrie Govan
Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough.
~ H. Gilbert Welch
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition," Kuhn wrote.
~ James Gleick
biology has become an information science
~ James Gleick
the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.
~ James Henry Breasted
It was soon plain to the climatologist that his host's knowledge of the global crisis was wider ranging: Poggs had conducted detailed studies of every disaster.
~ James Herbert
studying castelles in the blowne
~ James Joyce
I guess research isn't for everyone." "Certainly not for the faint of heart or the unfaithful.
~ James Luceno
The only humans among the research group, they were a long way from the Core, and even farther from the conflict that had recently erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the so-called Separatists.
~ James Luceno
If in the end Erso's research moves us closer to engineering a weapon for the battle station, then you will have not only my gratitude, but also that of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Republic itself." Krennic restrained a smile. "We all play our part, Vice Chancellor.
~ James Luceno
For Galen," Easel said. "The Separatists want his research. Phara must have promised to deliver him into their custody.
~ James Luceno
As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was educated in the stacks of the Swarthmore library. And as an adult I use libraries daily in my search for the facts and the enlightenment I use in writing my books. In fact, I like libraries so much that I married a librarian.
~ James Michener