Research Quotes · Page 67

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

— Albert Camus

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to…

— Jules Verne

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

— Peter Agre

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

— Richard Hamming

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively…

— George E. P. Box

What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.

— David Brock

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

— Barack Obama

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is…

— Lidia Bastianich

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college,…

— Joe Biden

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research…

— Irvine Welsh

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains…

— Nicholson Baker

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of…

— David Christian

I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is…

— Donnie Yen

I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once…

— Luanne Rice

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to…

— Edwin Land

The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is…

— Darrell Huff

Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our tastes, we can generally appreciate such things as…

— Derren Brown

“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service.…

— Patricia L. Sunderland

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I have done research about people who think they're doing movements and people - like Madonna and professional dancers - who are…

— Tracy Anderson

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

— Nancy Reagan

“Unlike classical certainty, quantum systems describe likelihoods, not fixed outcomes.”

— Ludmila Morozova-Buss

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly…

— Elizabeth Edwards

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

— Maria Semple

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

— David D. Burns

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

— Harold E. Varmus

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

— Christine Pelosi

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

— Andrea Hirata

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

— Mitt Romney

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher

“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. —Bernard Haisch”

— Philip Houston

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

— Isabel Allende

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

— Bill Peet

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

— Julie Payette

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

— John B. S. Haldane