Research Quotes

1864 Research quotes by 1359 unique authors

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head. — Charles Kettering
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.… — Sydney Brenner
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. — Edwin Land
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards. — George W. Bush
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. — Aristotle
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. — Paul Dirac
I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf… — James M. Barrie
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a… — Michael Faraday
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in… — Ernest Rutherford
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you… — Charles Kettering
I rarely plan my research; it plans me. — Max Perutz
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed… — Albert Claude
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't… — Gertrude B. Elion
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for… — Edwin Land

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