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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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"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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"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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"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
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"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
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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 am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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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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"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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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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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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"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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"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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"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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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 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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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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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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"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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"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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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
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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 have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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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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"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
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"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
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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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"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."
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"Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles."
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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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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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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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"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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