Quotes About Research

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

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

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

these four sciences, nanotechnology is now surfacing as the most significant. NANO simply refers

The effort is said to be only theoretical so far, but it is hard to think that pursuits in this direction have not already commenced here and there.

was entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard. I spent the next few hours reading it, and then re-read it two more times.

But my age is advancing, and I have become interested in recording and wrapping up my active research into Psi phenomena

So, the whole barn of psychic research must be burnt down as quickly as possible, making sure that the telepathic horses don't escape.

nanogenetic

Advanced research along these lines has established that in each and every minute an immensely astronomical number of information bits do enter through our whole-body receptors. Additionally, during

The physical brain continues to be probed, and electromagnetism continues to be thought of as the carrier of ESP "signals," while all along, new wave research in physics has virtually established the fact that there is a second reality that operates totally independently of any brain-electromagnetic arrangement. In fact, the old reality pales in importance if the basic elements of the new second reality are grasped.

Surely something along these lines would have to do with their research and development of their OWN forms of consciousness – at least to the degree that such development has taken them, at the very least, somewhat beyond massively destroying themselves before they could achieve the status of being "advanced.

This pervasive sense of danger has discouraged many serious scholars from visiting Japanese archives to conduct their research on the subject; indeed, I was told in Nanking that the People's Republic of China rarely permits its scholars to journey to Japan for fear of jeopardizing their physical safety.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

I have studied these things - you have not.

Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I feign no hypotheses", "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses")

Citizens expect solutions from science for all sorts of social problems: unemployment, depleted oil reserves, pollution, cancer … the path that leads to the answers to these questions is not as direct as a programmatic vision of research would have us believe …

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

There is still, in fact, in Calvino's archive a drawer full of newspaper cuttings concerning scientific discoveries. As