“Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.” TryingMaySuccessfulBabyMonthsDevelopmentResearchNineFormerBeing SuccessfulLatterStatisticsPregnantCrashProgrammesBasic Research Author:Richard Doll
“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.” MayMomentsWould BePastOrderTurnsMy OwnStageDevelopmentUnderstoodPossessionHorizonPrecarious Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“I've likened it to another major corporate announcement for Alliance. Not only does Prudential bring capital into the Alliance program, but through the relationship we will be able to build with them. We may have some opportunities to do some future development with them in an extension of this partnership.” MayDoeAbleOpportunityDevelopmentMajorsProgramCorporatePartnershipExtensionsAlliancesAnnouncementsFuture Development Author:Mike Berry
“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.” MayMeanDoeEndsBodyScienceCertainKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentAccountsIntuitionIntellectPoeticEndeavorIdleCertain Knowledge Author:Max Planck
“If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.” IfsMenShouldBelieveMayInterestAnimalStagePossibilityBrotherDevelopmentDemandCreaturesWeaknessMereProtestAnimal RightsFeathersInabilityFurRefrainObtainingFinsStages Of Development Author:Luther Burbank
“Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.” MayEconomicTheoryDevelopmentMethodObservationDefinedAnalysisRelatedAppropriateInferenceEconometrics Author:Paul Samuelson
“it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.” IfsMayStatesUnitedUnited StatesDevelopmentRussiaRivals Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22 Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22