Quotes About Research

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Science is the search for truth.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

Science is uncertain.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.