Quotes About Research

It had been tested extensively in clinical trials in third-world countries;

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 22,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease, arthritis, and hypertension are inching forward at over 225 research sites around the world.

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 36,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas, and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease and arthritis, are inching forward at over 270 research sites around the world.

Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach

Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

But even after European medicine changed, medicine in the United States did not. In research and education especially, American medicine lagged far behind, and that made practice lag as well.

most important lesson for every man of science, not to be satisfied with loose thinking and half-proofs, not to speculate and theorize but to observe closely and carefully.

most scientific rival of the germ theory explained disease in terms purely of chemistry. It saw disease as a chemical process.

The study of epidemic disease is, of course, a prime focus of public health.

course, if developing a universal vaccine were easy it would have been done, but for decades few resources went to such research. Consider for a moment that prior to the emergence of H5N1, the U.S. government was spending more money on the West Nile virus than on influenza. While influenza was killing as many as 56,000 Americans a year, West Nile in its deadliest year killed 284.

And West Nile will never be a major threat; it is not a disease that will ever explode through the human population. Yet it was receiving more research dollars than influenza.

In 1881 he became the first to isolate the pneumococcus, a few weeks before Pasteur and Koch. (None of the three recognized the bacteria's full importance.) Sternberg also first observed that white blood cells engulfed bacteria, a key to understanding the immune system.

And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

Indeed, methodology matters more than anything else.

helped lead to a new conception of disease as something with an identity of its own, an objective existence.

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!