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• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Doe, Stories

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Simple, Competition, Zoom

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• Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Selfish, Book

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Pain, Names

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• Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Hands, Tyrants

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• But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Sky, Labs, Fields

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• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

  Matt Lauer

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Want, Measurement, Well Being

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• There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Coaching, Wave

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• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  David W. Oxtoby

  Teaching, College, Faculty Members

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• Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Firsts, Honest

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hands, Awkward, Insane

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

  Graydon Carter

  Book, People, Credit

  "The angry editor". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Wine, Judging, Giving

  "How to Decant Wine with a Blender" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.bloomberg.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Believe, Numbers

  "A Glorious Waste Of Time" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.

  Michael Pollan

  Lying, Animal, Hair

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• Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Molecules, Analysis

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Updates, Lists, Hours

  "Does Facebook really care about you?" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Jobs, Years, Four

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.

  Alan Cranston

  Military, Holocaust, Environmental

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• Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Giving, Together

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• I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.

  Ken Follett

  New York, People, Waiting

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• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Commitment, Fighting, Doctors

  "What You Don’t Know About Cancer — Hope on the Horizon" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

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