This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research. — Todd Young Copy Share Image
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate. — Victor Vasarely Copy Share Image
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share Image
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. — Luc Montagnier Copy Share Image
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target. — Homer Burton Adkins Copy Share Image
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well,… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. — Elizabeth Streb Copy Share Image
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. — Steve Case Copy Share Image
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
