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• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Drug, Secret

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

  Joe Donnelly

  Cells, Community, Research

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• Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Society, Encounters

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expression, Meditation, Research

  "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

  "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type".

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• The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Life, Success, Nature

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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• These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Technology, Opportunity

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

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• Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

  Jeff Merkley

  Research, Causes, Global Warming

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

  Lisa Randall

  Ideas, Research, Scientist

  "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies are performed with the confidence that God will not capriciously confound scientific results by "slipping in" a miracle.

  James W. Skehan

  God, Nature, Science

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• When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Goal, Political

  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every faculty senate in the country. He has given us a timely, candid, courageous, and important book.

  Frank H. T. Rhodes

  Country, Distance, Book

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• Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Views, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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• What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

  Temple Grandin

  Research, World, Crosses

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• I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Fate, Successful

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan

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• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• "Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.

  Karl Pearson

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Science, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Science, Helping Others

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• The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

  James R Newman

  Science, Self, Research

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Heaven, Atheism, God's Creation

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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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