Quotes About Research

The sensory cortex and visual cortex are far away from each other. How do those tactile neurons "know" (a) that there's vacant property in the visual cortex; (b) that hooking up with those unoccupied neurons helps turn fingertip information into "reading"; and (c) how to send axonal projections to this new cortical continent? All are matters of ongoing research.

A critical realization roared through the research community: the physiological stress-response can be modulated by psychological factors. Two identical stressors with the same extent of allostatic disruption can be perceived, can be appraised differently, and the whole show changes from there.

Most child behavioral development research is implicitly stage oriented, concerning: (a) the sequence with which stages emerge; (b) how experience influences the speed and surety with which that sequential tape of maturation unreels; and (c) how this helps create the adult a child ultimately becomes.

Research shows that rejecting an offer is an emotional decision, triggered by anger at a lousy offer and the desire to punish. The

Back to mutations. Can there be mutations in DNA stretches constituting promoters? Yes

About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.

I had found the truth, I had dug the truth up out of the ash pile, the garbage heap, the kitchen midden, the bone yard, and had sent that little piece of truth to Adam Stanton. I couldn't cut the truth to match his ideas. Well, he'd have to make his ideas match the truth. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. The truth shall make you free.

That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

B-quadrant businesses get tax credits for hiring employees, for increasing their research and development, and for investing in green technology.

it takes shopping and looking at over 100 properties to buy one property.

he never bothered to look them up.

Back home again, Theodosia had fixed herself a cup of chamomile tea, ideal for jangled nerves or those times when sleep proves elusive. Then she sat down in front of her computer for a quick bit of Internet research.

Her research revealed that knitting was a very popular indoor sport and that a loom was on permanent display at the Wool Institute, which also had a few samples of colonial fabric.

Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.

When Terry Zobeck was working away at my bibliography, A Trawl Among the Shelves, I kept recalling books and stories and articles of mine that had slipped my mind, and reporting what I could recall; Terry, apparently indefatigable, would scour the internet until he came up with a copy of the new discovery, add it to his collection, and write it up for the bibliography.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.