Quotes About Research

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

I'm so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of humankind.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

The space station here is a magical place and an incredible science facility.

What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.

The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.

Our bodies are the subject of many experiments, but these experiments on the space station sometimes take years because in order for a scientist to get 10 data points, that can take six or seven years.

But thanks to the International Space Station, we're able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to Earth.

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.

I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

The stealing of American research, of course, ultimately takes American jobs.

The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.