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“If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.”

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June Goodfield is a historian born in 1927. Her research focuses on the history of England, particularly the medieval and early modern periods. Goodfield is known for her in-depth analysis of historical events and her unique perspective. more

“The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'”

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Author:Arthur David Ritchie

“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”

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Book:The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction

Source: The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction

“The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.”

Science Social Modern Research Complicated Organisms Laboratory

Book:How to Win the Nobel Prize

Source: How to Win the Nobel Prize

“The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.”

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Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia

“The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.”

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Author:James R Newman

“The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.”

“The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.”

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Author:James Black

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