Quotes About Research

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.