“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.” MindLongWholeFactsPastScienceValuesIndividualResultsDependsLong TimeResearchDiscoveryEmbraceComplexesEnterpriseCollectivesExceptionInventor Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.” MenLongYoungSoundNumbersEffortTeachingDependsHealthyResearchMen And WomenScientistCoreAdequateDisinterestedCarrying OnNew Knowledge Author:Alan Tower Waterman
“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.” MenScienceTurnsBeliefNaturalLevelsQualityKnownColdDependsResearchDiscoveryScientistPassionateHandleEnterpriseAbandonedImaginativePromotionMisleadUndertakingsEndeavourScientific ResearchEnquiryLaymanDispassionate Author:Peter Medawar
“External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.” DesireDependsIndustryNeededProjectsSolutionsResearchSizeDeterminedDependentClientsRequirementsPayment Author:Jeff Fisher
“But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.” Would BeActorsRiskDangerDependsBecomingResearchBrandsAvant GardeMarket Research Author:Colin Firth
“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
“The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.” BehindsDependsResearchToolsMeetingsLeavingProofEtcDocumentsSchedulesArtworkPlumber Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.” BrainInformationDependsPerceptionResearchPropertySensesOrganizedGmos Author:Steven Pinker
“The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.” StatesPlayShowsJobsGrowthUnitedRaceRolesUnited StatesEconomicCreationArmsKeysDependsResearchResourcesEntrepreneurImmigrantsLockedEconomic GrowthArms RaceJob CreationAmerican Jobs Author:Eric Ries
“Academic success depends on research and publications.” SuccessDependsResearchAcademicCongratulationsPublicationAcademic Success Author:Philip Zimbardo