In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental…

It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in…

— Barack Obama

Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

— Walter Gilbert

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help…

— Barack Obama

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

— Elizabeth Streb

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

— Luc Montagnier

The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's cheap insurance,…

— Robert X. Cringely

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

— Todd Young

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

— Homer Burton Adkins

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like…

— Richard Doll

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been…

— John Glenn

It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they…

— Lewis Thomas

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

— Lisa Murkowski