52 quotes found
“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get th...”
“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”
“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place.He chuckled rather heartily at my ...”
“The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”
“The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, ...”
“However, I have a stronger hunch that the greatest part of the important biomedical research waiting to be done is in the class of basic science. There is an abundance of interesting fact relating ...”
“The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid.”
“I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.”
“Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING”
“A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.”
“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 ca...”
“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
“People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.”
“We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.”
“Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.”
“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”
“I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning d...”
“What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.”
