Quotes About Research

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Science demands patience.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.