“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.” StoriesFatherHalfProgressCenturyDrugAchievementResearchAccountsWideFascinating20th CenturyHistoricEnjoyableBiomedical Author:Arvid Carlsson
“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.” ThinkingYearsMayStillsIdeasSeemsWould BeAgeAbleValuesEffortSituationStudyAchievePeriodsAchievementResearchScientistAddCurrentsGapsVacationProvidingNew IdeasMathematicianImprobableHaving HopeDeluded Author:John Forbes Nash
“The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.” ScienceTermProgressRevolutionOffersAchievementResearchRationalProgressiveProgrammesReconstructionMethodologyScientific RevolutionOvertaking Author:Imre Lakatos
“Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.” OpportunityAbilityLevelsStudyDependsGeniusAchievementResearchScientist Author:Peter Drucker
“Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.” DesireAchieveSkillsAchievementResearchDesire To AchieveDesire For Success Author:Marshall Goldsmith
“Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.” IfsWantChildrenImportantShowsSchoolHalfTeacherStudentsAchievementResearchOur ChildrenYour ChildrenClassroomVariationGreat TeacherBest EducationGreat SchoolsStudent Achievement Author:Bill Gates
“The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.” ArtBookCharacterAchievementResearchCastsMoodScalesHillsAnalysisProseEpicBiographiesCapitolUnforgettableProdigiousHypnoticCapitol Hill Author:Ron Chernow
“The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.” YearsLongLeftStruggleFivePlansPossibilityMonthsLimitsAchievementHighestResearchDecidedHistoricalOpponentsFive YearsOppositionFollowersSovietInitiativeIllustrationIndustrializationHistorical ResearchFive Year Plans Author:Leon Trotsky
“It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.” ShouldRealUseAnimalAchievementResearchUniversityBritishHidingWorthwhileColleaguesBoast Author:Robert Winston
“Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.” ScienceValuesResultsAchieveAchievementResearchExperienceMereExcuseIdleness Author:Benjamin Jowett
“"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.” MeanPastScienceCommunityPracticeParticularNormalAchievementResearchAccountsFoundationAcknowledge Author:Thomas Kuhn
“I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.” ThinkingMayLastsScienceAchievementResearchGood ThingsBusyFishesLabourWeedMagnetismPull Ups Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday
“We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.” IfsShouldImportantScienceJudgingAchievementResearchScientistImportanceScholarHarvestAdvancementStimulation Book:From My Life Source: From My Life
“We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.” WayHas BeensHelpingScienceSufferingFoundGoalStepsCreationDrugDiseaseAchievementResearchIdealsTreatsMedicineScalesDietsBalancedNew WaysFinestInventingMalnutritionIncurable DiseaseBalanced Diet Author:George W. Bush
“Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.” ImportantHelpingShowsHomeActionIndividualLevelsFailingAchieveSkillsAchievementResearchUltimateRateEducationalIncomeBeing TrueEmploymentMinoritiesGapsAcademicOwnershipCompetenceAffirmative ActionAffirmativeParityHome OwnershipTrue Equality Author:Shelby Steele
“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.” WorldFirstsHumansHeartMayHas BeensStatesCareUnitedRoomsUnited StatesSuccessfulPiecesPlansHappenedInvolvedAchievementPaperResearchImpactIncludingHealth CareTexasArtificialHuman HeartProceduresLaboratoryInstitutePricingTransplantsCardiovascularHeart TransplantOperating Room Author:Denton Cooley
“This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.” DarkCreativeSubjectsAchievementResearchDepthCornersCriticalScalesPursueArtisticIntimacyGloriousExplorationConceptionPassagesImpressedBiographiesSoarAssuredRipeFeatsCorridorsBiographers Author:Mark Bostridge
“Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement.” KindImportantBookBodyIndividualAchievementResearchDepthEndureInsightInterviewsAspireImpressiveEffective LeadershipIndividual Achievement Author:Richard M. Kovacevich