Quotes About Research

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

Immanuel Birmelin, an ethologist at the Society of Animal Behavior Research in Germany, explained how patient he'd had to be in order to run a test to see if cats can count: "One of the cats would do the test once in the morning—only!" he recalled. "Another would do it once in the afternoon—only!" It had taken him four years to show that cats can count to four.

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

Don't rely on market surveys.

The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

Short-term profits are not reliable indicator of performance of management. Anybody can pay dividends by deferring maintenance, cutting out research, or acquiring another company.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.