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Research Quotes
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."
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"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."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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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."
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"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
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"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
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"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."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before."
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"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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"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."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"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."
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"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
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"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."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
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"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."
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"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
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"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?"
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues."
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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
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"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
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"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
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"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."
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