Quotes About Research

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science leads you to killing people.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.