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Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

Jane Goodall

Animal, Feelings, Want

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Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

Richard Peto

Cancer, Doctors, Smoking

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I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Howard Gardner

Opportunity, Parent, Environmental

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The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes.

Rick Strassman

Discovery, Usa, Dmt

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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

Max Planck

Lonely, Spring, Struggle

Max Planck's address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936) as quoted in Kristie Macrakis "Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany", 1993.

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Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

Jimmy Fallon

Marriage, Wife, Decision

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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

Tan Le

Alzheimer's, Data, One Day

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The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.

Sean Sullivan

Real, Bridges, Creating

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Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

Ariel Gore

Married, Reason, Walking Out

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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cost, Research, Firsts

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A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

May-Britt Moser

Perfection, Focus, Excellence

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At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.

John Ratey

Stress, Wine, Exercise

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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

Joseph Rusling Meeker

Party, Animal, Play

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Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

Jay Leno

Jobs, Work, Naps

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I have never been much of a researcher

Meg Wolitzer

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My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Ray Kurzweil

Team, Understanding, Google

"How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 25, 2013.

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A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

Richard Louv

Children, Believe, Loss

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

Twyla Tharp

Morning, Inspiration, Creative

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David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.

Al Gore

Men, Thinking, America

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Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

Joao Magueijo

Nature, Real, Sweat

João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

E. O. Wilson

Intuition, Important, Form

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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen

Library, Research, Renaissance

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Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Norman Cousins

Laughter, May, Panic

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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Jobs, Community, African American

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After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Independent, Brooklyn, Interviews

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