Quotes About Research

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.

The best intelligence the British received came through German activity at Vemork. As early as April 1940 Jacques Allier had alerted his British allies to Nazi efforts in uranium research using heavy water from the plant.

In a classic study published in 1992, the New England Journal of Medicine reported an important breakthrough about where these antibodies may be coming from. Researchers had taken blood samples from 142 children with type 1 diabetes. Every single child had antibodies to proteins in cow's milk. Further study showed that these antibodies were capable of attacking the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

In our research we consistently found that the people who were most effective during the Investigating stage were the ones most likely to be top sales performers.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

would say that a lot of the science that ends up helping people is undertaken by men and women who are doing it for its own sake, and that going around weeping for those who suffer doesn't mean you're actually doing anything to help them.

Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.

As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.

Sitting down and going through a book from cover to cover doesn't make sense," he says. "It's not a good use of my time, as I can get all the information I need faster through the Web." As soon as you learn to be "a skilled hunter" online, he argues, books become superfluous.

That hasn't happened. Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.

Intensive multitaskers are "suckers for irrelevancy," commented Clifford Nass, the Stanford professor who led the research.

quality and efficiency of patient care are only marginally better. Research on the effectiveness of health IT has yielded mixed results.

Apple is well connected to its fan and professional user base and it does use research to generate insights into customer behaviour. Interestingly though, this seems not to be about asking people to suggest what they want, but rather to explore people's whole lives (not just what they do as consumers at the point of purchase) and from there to make the imaginative leap to innovation.

Richard Feynman said that the differences between true sciences and the pseudo-sciences – a category that includes the management-speak of the business schools – was that the former try to be honest, while the latter do not.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

One begins to wonder if all the most interesting problems in physics are now in biology.

Anthropology largely neglects the individual to deal in generalizations. Generalizations always tell a little lie in the service of a greater truth.

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

So, just collecting lots of data to SUPPORT a Theory is of limited use: a good Scientist looks for evidence to DISPROVE a Theory.

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals.