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Quotes About Research

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.
~ Tina Fey
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
~ Terry Pratchett
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.
~ J. K. Rowling
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
~ John Spencer
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.
~ Michio Kaku
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.
~ John Seely Brown
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient
~ Barack Obama
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
~ Ahmed Zewail
When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.
~ Richard Lindzen
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
~ Helene Deutsch
I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.
~ Burt Rutan
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
~ Peter Agre
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
~ Charles M. Vest
There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
Learn your topic through self-study through scrupulous analysis and learn about your goal
~ Sunday Adelaja
How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.
~ Casey Stengel
Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.
~ Joey Adams
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
~ Mark Twain
The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.
~ Jay Leno
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.
~ Unknown
ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)
~ Martha Wells
Then there was Asshole Research Transport. ART's official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients' lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.)
~ Martha Wells
Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.
~ Martha Wells