Quotes About Research

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

When I had to have a little seizure, I looked up videos of people having seizures. I remember looking up symptoms and what happens to your body. You kind of just lock up and I had to prepare for that. A lot.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the local RLE administrators, research in gravitation and cosmology was not in the military's interest, and support was given to solid-state physics, which was deemed more relevant.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a 'vehicle' for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally.

it was not scientists, but a reporter—Carlos Byars of the Houston Chronicle—who first made the connection. After listening to Hildebrand present the Arizona group's research at a scientific meeting, Byars told him about Penfield's earlier discovery of a potential impact crater—helping the scientists bring the mystery of the missing crater to its remarkably satisfying conclusion.

calculations

Early in the twentieth century, the physicist Lord Rutherford, best known for his landmark discovery of the atomic nucleus, famously pronounced, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

I've been doing research on my own and conducting interviews with some of the local librarians. Very valuable people, librarians. Like your family, they keep all kinds of records. And unlike your family, they tend not to burn them.

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.

Una revisión de la literatura relevante demuestra que la felicidad es estadísticamente anormal,

The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

Algunos investigadores afirman que los pesticidas pueden ser más culpables de la resistencia a la insulina, el síndrome metabólico y la diabetes, que la misma obesidad!

Las mujeres con síndrome de ovarios poliquísticos tienen niveles más altos de BPA en la sangre comparadas con las mujeres que no tienen la enfermedad.

Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies. But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks. The drinks, people.

One of the most common problems encountered among the students I counsel is biting off too large a topic or question for their dissertation. Don't feel like you're cheating or slacking off if you end up reducing the size of your project.

I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.

They tend to prefer the theoretical to the observable, and to dismiss that which might be learned empirically as "anecdotal".

Froehlich's syndrome

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".