Quotes About Research

There was a sense that the one true theory had been discovered. Nothing else was important or worth thinking about. Seminars devoted to string theory sprang up at many of the major universities and research institutes. At Harvard, the string theory seminar was called the Postmodern Physics seminar. This appellation was not meant ironically.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

Impaired trunk proprioception and deficits in trunk control have been shown to be predictors of knee injury (Zazulak et al 2007a, 2007b).

research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.

In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.

Another recent work, an academic article that described research on a single type of nerve cell in the hypothalamus, was over one hundred pages long and cited seven hundred intricate experiments.

Research suggests that your happiness set point as well as circumstances and recent events accounts for much but not all of your happiness level. What about the rest? That's due to our behavior, and the good news is, in contrast to the others, this factor is very much under our control.

It is one thing to suspect that archers and astronomers, chemists and marketers, encounter the same error law; it is another to discover the specific form of that law.

In 1794, Lavoisier was arrested with the rest of the association and quickly sentenced to death. Ever the dedicated scientist, he requested time to complete some of his research so that it would be available to posterity. To that the presiding judge famously replied, "The republic has no need of scientists.

I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

Es que en ese colegio tuyo no te enseñaron a abordar una investigación? - No. Pero sé recitar el «Himno de batalla de la República» mientras hago martinis. - Lloro por el futuro.

Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.

The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.