Quotes About Research

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

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

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

We thought back to previous research we'd been involved in with so-called difficult clients. One conclusion was that there really are no such things—all clients are really doing the best they can—just doing their jobs coping in the only way they know how.

Companies such as Intel, IBM, General Electric, Apple, and Microsoft have also expanded their research operations abroad to countries including India, China, Singapore, and Israel in order to be nearer customers and technological talent. In fact, PricewaterhouseCoopers has estimated that 94 percent of all global companies now do some research and development outside their home countries.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

empirical research conducted over decades suggests that student evaluations are more than unhelpful;

Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, "even in the most extreme circumstances—like the financial crisis—directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Learn all about your industry and find out if people are making more money doing what you do somewhere else. If so, do all the things listed in number 5 below and get yourself a job at another company that pays better.

Investigate the specifics.

How many times have I heard you Whirlwind guys say that even now, after all these years of research, nobody knows why one supercell spawns a tornado and another doesn't? Why wouldn't that be the case for people too? Every brain is different and responds differently to treatment, and what might not help one person, for instance holistic medicine, might help the next.

There is no great trick to doing research," Ogilvy later observed. "The problem is to get people to use it—particularly when the research reveals that you have been making mistakes." Most people, he found, had "a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost—for support, not for illumination.

It's a telling example of how basic owl science has boosted human medicine—and how an owl's eyes and ears work together.

Whenever his eyes happen to graze Mindy's, she senses shame on her behalf: because of her prettiness; because she sleeps with Lou; because she keeps telling herself this trip constitutes anthropological research into group dynamics and ethnographic enclaves, when really what she's after is luxury, adventure, and a break from her four insomniac roommates.

Stomach issues aren't typical. But let me do some research." Trexler scribbles on a notepad. "What about breathing problems? That's usually what we see in cases of methane contamination." "She has asthma," Shelby says. Trexler's face lights. "There's a known connection between asthma and methane migration.

One can begin with the expansion of the source base available to scholars brought about by the digital revolution. When I began work on Reconstruction, the World Wide Web did not exist (nor did email, so that scholars wasted a lot less of their time than nowadays).

Stan Spray, a Sandia engineer who burned, crushed, and routinely tortured nuclear weapon components to discover their flaws

valuable, but usually inanimate. The fourth of the essays, by C. Patterson Giersch, examines less-well-known trading conditions in southwestern China, highlighting the fact that less research has been done on overland merchandise across the porous Chinese borders of mainland Southeast Asia. Indeed, at least five essays in this volume deal with this relatively neglected area of study, and all make useful suggestions about possible future research. The remaining

the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments. Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.