Quotes about Research

Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

retrospective studies are well suited for generating a hypothesis, then the hypothesis can be tested prospectively and supported, especially when independently replicated.

High performers obsessively research their dreams from a multitude of sources. To become world-class, you have to know who has already cracked the struggle you face ahead.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.