Quotes About Research

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

the best data scientists tend to be "hard scientists," particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

For those of you who are inevitably asking themselves, Okay, but how much time should I be seeking to spend on fun? Here's a starting place: two bours a day. This recommendation is grounded from two empirical sources: first, research from Dr. Marissa Sharif, Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes, and Dr. Hal Hershfield that suggests the "Goldilocks" sweet spot for leisure time is between two to five hours a day (more than five hours and the weight of being non productive has a negative effect.)

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Research has documented the healing power of confiding in others. James W. Pennebaker's research on the correlation between suppressing our stories and illness, on the one hand, and telling our stories and increased health, on the other, is especially compelling and well researched.11 As Russ himself later said: "Nothing got better for me until I began to talk about it.

Yoseb read three or four papers to glean some truth from the gaps and overlaps.

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!

Gregor would reference all kinds of books and articles, and instead of paraphrasing them, like any normal lazy person, he'd insist on going online and finding the exact line or quote from the secondary source, adding another five-minute silent section to the meeting, during which he wordlessly surfed online. Later I would realize this is Greg''s signature style. He likes to take in people past the point where they can be putting on a show to impress him.

Network executives usually have bad taste. It's either just a reflection of what market research tells them that normal people are into, or whatever their adolescent children are obsessed with. I have so often been on the receiving end of whatever powerful network executive's children are watching that week. That

Back then, we all thought Lever 2000 was the best because the number "2000" seemed so impressive. Were there 1999 formulas before they landed on this one? That sounds really well researched. I'm in!

SOMETIMES I bring a script I'm working on to a restaurant and sit near people and eavesdrop on them. I could rationalize it—Oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing—but it's basically just nosiness. I especially

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

The study of molecular structure attempts to get at precisely the physical constituents of molecules.

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Chemistry anatomical biology develops gene philosophy.

All scientists must be great thinkers or philosophers before they dwell on any scientific research.

My aim is to banish this mental slavery within the citizens and make them to turn their eyes on the scientific researches.