Quotes About Research

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

History is a science, no more and no less.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Health has its science, as well as disease.