Quotes About Research

Following the footnotes of a Lincoln book can drive you towards madness. But it also gives you the chance to spend days trying to determine whether Lincoln might have actually taken a ride on a flying piano, and that's a damned interesting way to spend one's working life.

I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose.

Lovallo and Kahneman offer a useful prescription to repair this cognitive bias: Get the data. Track down actual figures on launch failure rates for your company, your industry, other industries or projects similar to yours. The numbers will be fascinating – and sobering.

in Karachi, the first such plant in the country, only to be ignored. Niazi wrote: 'This patriot Pakistani also informed [Bhutto] that apart from writing innumerable research papers, he had written an internationally known book. In spite of all of this, the incompetent officials of the People's Steel Mill were unable to make use

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

I want to help AIDS patients.

Certain types of cancer patients are finally being cured thanks to immunotherapy.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.

Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

Government research has to go through peer review.

Pennsylvania has some of the best science in the world.

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.

Everything that people say is testable.

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'