Academic Research Quotes

• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Expression, Optimism, Understanding

  Henry Rosovsky (1990). “The University: An Owner's Manual”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

  Dave Ulrich

  Running, Research, World

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

  Juan Cole

  Government, People, Political

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• The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

  Nick Bostrom

  Library, Research, Digging

  "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.

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• I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people.

  Arfa Karim

  Technology, People, Support

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

  Dave Ulrich

  School, Reality, Ivory

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• My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

  Myron Scholes

  Careers, Risk, Active Management

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• There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

  Peter Bergen

  Research, Losing, Academic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  People, Chinese, Research

  "Spy cases turn spotlight on shadowy legal system" by Lisa Weaver, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2001.

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