Quotes About Research

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

People genuinely believe that if they worry enough over their unhappiness they will eventually find a solution. They just need to make one last heave – think a little more about the problem … But research shows the opposite: in fact, brooding reduces our ability to solve problems; and it's absolutely hopeless for dealing with emotional difficulties.

One evening, the story goes, the two men were looking out of their laboratory window in Heidelberg at a fire raging in the nearby town of Mannheim. Curious about what might be burning, they pointed their spectroscope at the flames. They were able to detect the presence of the elements barium and strontium in the fire, whose spectra they had previously identified in their laboratory. The question struck them immediately: if they could analyse flames in Mannheim, why not the surface of the Sun?

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

As we have seen, CBD may protect against retinal neuropathy or loss of vision caused by diabetes, which may be due to glutamate toxicity.

Studies by GW Pharmaceuticals have found marijuana extracts effective against neuropathy from diabetes

Rorschach's dissertation, which he finished in 1912, set out to define the physiological pathways that make empathy in Vischer's sense possible. "On 'Reflex Hallucinations' and Related Phenomena" may be a brain-numbing title in English, but the subject was nothing less than the connection between what we see and how we feel. Reflexhalluzination was a technical psychiatric

How does anybody know anything? I Googled it!

leaders should be wary of common sense, which can be a poor substitute for evidence.)

But he had a problem: other psychologists had already supposedly proved that Klingberg's experiment would never work—that practice on one short-term memory task never transfers to improvement on another.

There's been a sea change in our ability to understand and treat Down syndrome," said Mobley. "There's just been an explosion of information. As recently as the year 2000, no drug company would possibly have thought about developing therapies for Down syndrome. I am now in contact with no less than four companies that are pursuing treatments.

Five years and 250 mice later, she concluded that the sixty-fifth attempt was her keeper, with the best combination of Down-like qualities, even including, incredibly, some of the distinctive facial characteristics associated with the disease, and the same slightly uncoordinated gait.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

a lack of clarity in the concepts used will lead to a lack of clarity in the questions posed, and thus also to a lack of clarity in the design of the experiments supposed to provide an answer to the questions.

biologists figure is why the crab stocks took such a dive in the mid-eighties." Jack examined his greasy fingers with rapt attention before beginning

Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance—the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women—is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

Tabata: Tabata training is a type of workout named for Dr. Izumi Tabata, a Japanese researcher who found that four-minute exercises seemed to be optimal for building lean muscle. Ahh, just four minutes! But those four minutes are intense. For each exercise, you'll: Push yourself as hard as you can for 20 seconds. Rest for 10 seconds. Complete 8 rounds (for a total of 4 minutes).

a 2011 study found that gluten causes gastrointestinal symptoms in people even if they don't have celiac disease.

More studies followed. In 2005 Fredrik Ullen scanned the brains of concert pianists and found a directly proportional relationship between hours of practice and white matter. In 2000 Torkel Klingberg linked reading skill to white matter increases, and in 2006 Jesus Pujol did the same for vocabulary development.