Research Quotes · Page 48

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

— Carol Tavris

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

— Richard Ernst

Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had…

— James W. Black

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

— Lisa Randall

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

— Malcolm D. Lee

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

— Rupert Sheldrake

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and…

— Don Sherwood

Government leaders, researchers, physicians, the pharmaceutical industry, cancer advocates, and many other stakeholders all have a key role in promoting a safer,…

— Margaret Cuomo

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care…

— Rodney Brooks

In my opinion, there's not really a 'worst' flower; however, you do have to do some research based on the people whose…

— Jeremiah Brent

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the…

— James Tobin

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are…

— Robert Mueller

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So…

— Zachary Lazar

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real…

— Jamie Dornan

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never…

— Claude Bernard

I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this…

— Simon Rich

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of…

— Amanda Ripley

[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish…

— Michael Smith

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences…

— Otto Scharmer

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“We were members of a research group with a great interest in nuclear physics and totally devoted to this branch of science--and…

— Takashi Nagai

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

— Anonymous

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

— Deborah Harkness

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

— Erna Solberg

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

— Ernest Cline

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

— Theobald Smith

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery…

— William Cecil Dampier

Since my work is theoretical, the financial needs are very little. Doing the research itself is the toughest challenge.

— Ashoke Sen

When I'm thanked by patients who recover, I truly feel the significance of our research.

— Tasuku Honjo

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

— Zaha Hadid

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of…

— Martin H. Fischer

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

— Humphry Davy

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

— Aristotle

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

— Hillary Clinton

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search…

— William Winwood Reade