Quotes About Researchers

genetic researchers have formulated the rather startling thesis that while Ashkenazic males likely derived from the Middle East, Ashkenazi women came from Europe. This suggests that Jewish men migrated to Europe, where they married local women who were not born Jewish but converted and

Perhaps this is because, as suspicious researchers have observed, more people are making a living off cancer than dying from it.

had also hoped to visit scientists investigating cats' mental talents, but unfortunately very few researchers have looked into the feline mind.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are contentThat he held the proper opinions for the time of year;When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

The only real problem is that language researchers cannot yet find the language piano itself, which is apparently installed in the seat of consciousness, again not locatable so far.

is far easier to agree with the eminent researchers Penfield and Eccles and hypothesize that there exists a greater "organ" possessing enormous powers — which, although completely invisible to our present materialistic knowledge, certainly must exist. And it was this "organ" that John Traynor and Mason somehow activated — although, of course, quite inadvertently.

Psychologically speaking, they tend also to be filled with grim, but devoted, researchers whose accumulated disappointment in not making big breakthroughs is quite tangible — even if they do manage to smile at subjects.

advancing bio-neurological researchers have discovered that our neurological systems possess a gigantic number of micro-receptors, the result of which is that it is thought that every cell in our bio-bodies act as some kind of a receptor, including the cells in our bones.

And that is the same problem that researchers would run into if they tried to test the cognitive effects of a diet full of junk food, say, or fast food: it's very, very difficult to get people to agree to change their diet at the request of a scientist and then to follow that diet for weeks or months, let alone years.

In 2015, researchers found that when people took walks in nature, then submitted to a brain scan, their sgPFC showed less activity, and the subjects reported fewer feelings of self-doubt. But when they took walks in an urban setting, they got no relief. Their brains were still shooting out sparks, and their thoughts were still running to the negative. Turns out the beauty of the natural world is a palliative against feeling sorry for ourselves.

researchers have found that extraversion has "no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance

The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets' ratings on a noncognitive, nonphysical trait known as "grit

The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets' ratings on a noncognitive, non-physical trait known as "grit"—defined as "perseverance and passion for long-term goals."10 The experience of these army officers-in-training confirms the second law of mastery: Mastery is a pain.

There was not much interest in Sarah's life to draw researchers to the Berlin archives. Sarah, aware that she had something to hide, had led the way in shaping an image of herself as the most devoted of wives, and before her death she weeded out letters that friends, according to the custom of the day, returned to her. Her immediate survivors outdid her. They destroyed letters that even Sarah had preserved, perhaps to blur the intense unhappiness of the first decades of her marriage.

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

researchers have observed a significantly greater flow of neural traffic from the ENS to the head-brain than from the head-brain to the ENS.6

What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.

Whether the subject is climate change or the life span of unicorns, when you cite demonstrable facts to counter another person's belief, a phenomenon that researchers call "the backfire effect" takes over. Your brilliant marshaling of data not only fails to persuade the believer, it backfires and strengthens his or her belief. The believer doubles down on his or her position—and the two of you are more polarized than ever. If

They're academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.

the researchers found that bike training had a strong positive effect on running performance, but swimming did not.

In 1997, Japanese researchers found that repetitive rhythms have the effect of stimulating our brain's hypothalamus, which evokes feelings of either serenity or arousal in us.

The researchers noted that their most important finding may be that cholesterol consumption was a strong predictor of cirrhosis and liver cancer. Those consuming the amount of cholesterol found in two Egg McMuffins34 or more each day appeared to double their risk of hospitalization or death.35