Quotes About Research

Let the experiment be made.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

I think science is real.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.