Quotes About Research

good rule of thumb is to ask yourself, "Do I have enough information to actually build this project?" If not, keep asking more questions and doing more research until you do.

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

Bruce conducted some groundbreaking experiments showing that our genes do not control biology. The idea that genes control biology is a faulty scientific assumption that was debunked by the Human Genome Project around the year 2003, a

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

They're only just now decoding Dickens's Tavistock letter." It was the letter Jérôme Brunel was working on as part of his hobby.

Had he not been a cop, he'd have loved to be a historian or archivist. Going over old papers, finding curiosities buried in obscure libraries.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

that pure science searches for the truth without worrying about its practical application,

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't

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literature. There has been a myth for decades, now well debunked by more than twenty studies, that a person looking away or to the side while answering a question is being deceptive.

predators and habitual liars actually engage in greater eye contact than most individuals, and will lock eyes with you. Research clearly shows that Machiavellian people (for example, psychopaths, con men, and habitual liars) will actually increase eye contact during deception (Ekman, 1991, 141–142).

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White, cremini, portobello, oyster, maitake, and reishi mushrooms have all been shown to have anticancer effects

The most common and least expensive mushrooms—white button mushrooms—showed these strong benefits. If that's not enough great news about mushrooms, there's more.

The insight provided by the research is simple: As long as Americans continue to practice nutritional indifference, they will suffer the consequences. Don't expect any significant protection from marginal changes.

Researchers looking for answers to these questions studied women with cancer and found that saturated fat in the diet promoted a more rapid spread of the cancer.61 Other researchers found similar results. For a woman who already has cancer, her risk of dying increased 40 percent for every 1,000 grams of fat consumed monthly.62 Studies also indicate that high fruit and vegetable intake improved survival, and fat on the body increases the risk of a premature death.

The research shows that those who avoid meat and dairy have lower rates of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.23 The data is conclusive: vegetarians live longer in America, probably a lot longer.

Dr. Fuhrman is the research director of the Nutritional Research Foundation. He is the author of several books

When many of us were children, we were taught that animal products were good for us because they were a biologically complete protein that was essential for good health. Research in the past ten years, however, has shown conclusively that high biological protein is the most damaging feature of animal products. 16