Quotes About Research

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

He tried to look up more about magical curses online – but as usual, the internet wasn't a huge help, and mostly just its best to convince him he was about to die. - 'Only Human' by Meredith Katz

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.