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Research Quotes
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
138
"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."
71
"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."
71
"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."
64
"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
63
"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
61
"I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute."
61
"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before."
60
"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
59
"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
57
"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
55
"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
54
"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
54
"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
53
"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
53
"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
53
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
53
"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
52
"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
52
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
52
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
52
"I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can."
52
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
52
"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
52
"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
51
"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."
51
"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
50
"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."
50
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
50
"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
49
"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
48
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
48
"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
48
"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
47
"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built."
47
"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
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