Quotes About Research

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

Science is the topography of ignorance.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.