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Quotes About Studies

Hardin shook himself out of an abstracted reverie. 'No, milord, can't say I am. I'm a psychologist by original intention and a politician by final decision.' 'Ah! No doubt intewesting studies. I, myself, y'know
~ Isaac Asimov
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
~ Betty White
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
~ Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
~ Anonymous
In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.
~ Jasmila Zbanic
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
~ Simone Weil
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
~ Susan Faludi
These men had good cause to pursue nuptials; if there's one pattern that psychological studies have established, it's that the institution of marriage has an overwhelmingly salutary effect on men's mental health. "Being married," the prominent government demographer Paul Glick once estimated, "is about twice as advantageous to men as to women in terms of continued survival.
~ Susan Faludi
Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emotions will cause you to become demoralized.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The way to remedy this is through meta-analyses of scientific studies, in which an überresearcher peruses the entire literature, which includes the less-advertised articles, and produces a synthesis.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies, particularly those called "observational," ones in which the researcher finds past patterns, and, thanks to the sheer amount of data, can therefore fall into the trap of an invented narrative.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tronstad returned to Trondheim, where he had resumed his teaching and studies at NTH. He channeled most of his prodigious energy, however, into his activities with the underground resistance, working particularly closely with several bands of university students who were pushing back against the German hold on the country.
~ Neal Bascomb
Studies show that the two greatest stress-producing factors to body, mind, and emotions are the death of a spouse and divorce.
~ Charles H. Kraft
The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks.
~ Charles Wheelan
The internet. Everything one needs at one's fingertips. There have been no doubt studies demonstrating how this has affected people's memories in the negative. I will have to look those up online.
~ Charlie Kaufman
If the story you're reading is about health, there's one place you should be sure to look for a second opinion: the Cochrane Collaboration.
~ Tim Harford
Martin also reveals the many scientific studies that have shown the benefits of long sleeping and napping to our health and happiness, and also shows how major disasters such as Chernobyl, and smaller ones such as train and motorway crashes, were caused by lack of sleep. Chasing profit leads to lack of sleep, and lack of sleep can lead to death.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
~ Klaus Fuchs
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
~ Koichi Tanaka
I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?
~ Koren Zailckas
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
~ Carol P. Christ
Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.
~ George Spafford
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
~ Samuel Chadwick