"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."

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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."

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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

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"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

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"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."

Mitt Romney, American Politician

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"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."

Thomas Kuhn, American Writer

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"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Animals

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."

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"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."

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"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."

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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."

"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."

"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."

"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."

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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."

"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."

"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."

"The best project is one that asks a novel question."

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."

"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."

"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."