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Quotes About Research

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
~ Michael Shermer
I did not think; I experimented.
~ Unknown
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
~ Paul D. Boyer
Experience by itself is not science.
~ Edmund Husserl
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
~ Tim Robbins
When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.
~ Reggie Watts
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.
~ Julian Jaynes
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
~ Billie Jean King
Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I don't even want to talk about "female sexuality" until there is a control group. And there never will be.
~ Maggie Nelson
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it
~ Mao Tse-Tung
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
~ Marc Andreessen
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
~ Marc Garneau
Archaeological excavation of such sites has also revealed evidence of cannibalism.
~ Unknown
but the earliest written evidence suggests that the monastery was established in the decades either side of 700,
~ Unknown
it is hard to discredit the idea that he worked on Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care,
~ Unknown
United Western Investigation
~ Marc Reisner
I am a member of the Societe Meteorologique de France and of the American Meteorological Society. As a Professor of Climatology, my employer is the French Republic, which has adopted the official religion of 'climate change', to which I do not adhere. I am not beholden to any 'slush fund'. and my Laboratoire de Climatologie, Risques, Environnement (LORE),
~ Marcel Leroux
Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
WHEN SHE WAS GONE, Lucas took out his cell phone, went online and looked up the plural of apparatus, and found that it was apparatus, or apparatuses, and not apparati. He said, "Huh," turned the phone off and thought about Johnson.
~ John Sandford
Dr. Gitsen did genetic typing of some of the Dalasýslans," Marce said. "Do you know what she found?" "Inbreeding?" "No," Marce said. "Well, yes.
~ John Scalzi