Example Quote by Imre Lakatos

Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the…

— Richard P. Feynman

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed…

— Anonymous

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

— Fred Saberhagen

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one…

— Imre Lakatos

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was…

— Che Guevara