Research Quotes - Page 33

• The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

  Michael J. Fox

  Way, Moments, Parkinson's

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Men, Self Worth, Law

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• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Education, Cutting

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• Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having those things, certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. And that's when all those outer things come. They don't come from going after them first to get the happiness, it's backwards; you go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all of the other things from the outside appear.

  Marci Shimoff

  Home, People, Joy

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Romance

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

  Ernest Cline

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  Ernest Cline

  Cute, Girl, Ukulele

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

  Patricia Polacco

  Creativity, Practice, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Patricia Polacco from Mar 24, 2014

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• On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

  Walther Nernst

  Knowledge, Examination, Motto

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• Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

  William Shockley

  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."

  Hubertus Strughold

  Knowledge, Science, Technology

  "From Outer Space - Advances For Medicine on Earth" by Hubertus Strughold, contributed in "Space, Its Impact on Man and Society" by Lillian Levy, (p. 117), 1965.

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• Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Men, Play

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Art, Science, May

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• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, Science, Wealth

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• I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

  Orrin Hatch

  Life, Hope, Science

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• From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.

  E.S. Russell

  Nature, Real, Science

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• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

  Jeffrey Boam

  Philosophy, Reading, Philosophical

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• Will fluorine ever have practical applications?
  It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.
  A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.

  Henri Moissan

  Truth, Believe, Science

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• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Success, Couple, Fall

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• In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

  Auguste Comte

  Mean, Mathematics, Source

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• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.

  Julian Coolidge

  Country, Science, Mountain Peaks

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• Knowledge is the death of research.

  Walther Nernst

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

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• An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

  Fuller Albright

  Taken, Science, Animal

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