Quotes About Research

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.