Research Quotes - Page 4

• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Awards, Honor, Fields

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• Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

  Lauren Groff

  Dark, Creative, Gleam

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, People, Enemy

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• Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Way, Ethical

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• The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

  Lois Capps

  Cells, Refusal, Tragic

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• There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

  Thomas Friedman

  Faces, Substitutes, Face To Face

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• Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

  Jim Ramstad

  Cells, People, Giving

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• There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

  William Bernbach

  Past, Design, Isolation

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• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  Charles Bass

  Design, Chinese, Spy

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• The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

  Walter Rudolf Hess

  Goal, Physiological

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• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Library, Management, Volume

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.491, Oxford University Press

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• We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Science

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• It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

  Jean M. Auel

  Years, Twenties, Myth

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• We learned the value of research in World War II.

  Amar Bose

  War, Keys, History

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• If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

  Peter Medawar

  Art, Science, Affair

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.42, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Experience

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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• When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Understanding, Trying

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• Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

  Linus Pauling

  Cancer, Health, Organization

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• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Science, Cells

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

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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Technology

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• Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

  H. G. Wells

  Wise, Men, Fool

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.53, H. G. Wells

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• I become kind of obsessive about research.

  James Franco

  Kind, Obsessive

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• If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

  Rick Renzi

  Moving, Oil, America

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