Research Quotes · Page 47

“many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour”

— Andrew Thomas

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six…

— Rutger Bregman

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of…

— Paul Dirac

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

— Tara Brach

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

— Ambrose Bierce

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

— Philip Emeagwali

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events.…

— Iris Johansen

I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read…

— Nargis Fakhri

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness…

— Martin Seligman

I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object…

— Richard Branson

I think that's the biggest misconception when people want to live a more clean, cruelty-free life is, 'I can't do that. It's…

— Torrey DeVitto

Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having…

— Chloe Benjamin

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…

— Gerald Holton

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or…

— James Rollins

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was…

— George Andrew Olah

“What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer,…

— Wallace Stegner

I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product…

— W. Edwards Deming

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…

— John Herschel

The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades…

— Michael Ruppert

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly…

— Michael Nielsen

The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly…

— Sheila Kamerman

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

— Brené Brown

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

— Nicholas Stern

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

— Kary Mullis

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

— Hudson Maxim

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

— Paul Virilio

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

— John Hull

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Preparation is everything. You don't like being interviewed by someone who hasn't done their research.

— C. J. McCollum

“Inquiry doesn’t have a motive. It doesn’t teach a philosophy. It’s just investigation.”

— Byron Katie

My views are more based on life and discovery and research than just what I'm told.

— Guy Sebastian

Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be…

— Peggy Whitson

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

— Benjamin Franklin

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

— Angela Bassett

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

— Jaan Tallinn

I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

— Randy Pausch