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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."

"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."

"We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research."

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."

"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."

"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."
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"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."

"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do."

"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."

"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."

"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."

"Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless."

"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."
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