Quotes About Research

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.

The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.

The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing you have to absolutely know is the location of the library.

I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation … This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it.

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.

Vivisezione. Nessuno scopo è così alto da giustificare metodi così indegni.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.