“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.” YearsLittlesStillsProblemAgeLawScienceKnownBirdResearchAdultsDressesFinalsAcquireRoutesDispositionMigrationUnsolved Problems Author:Paul Bartsch
“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.” PeopleIfsLittlesWholeCharacterBodyChurchReligiousDoubtSacrificeExampleResearchCatholicBlindStructureConstantSpreadDoctrineUncertaintyCatholicismDogmaCatholic ChurchUnwillingCorrectnessSyllablesBlind FaithCollisionEdificeMein KampfExact SciencesUncertainty And Doubt Author:Adolf Hitler
“Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLittlesHas BeensShowsReadingViewsFictionNovelMissingSkillsResearchPoint Of ViewMake You ThinkMissing OutHollownessReading Novels Author:Philip Hensher
“I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.” KnowsShouldYearsMindLittlesBitsLittle BitResearchAlcoholDecadesEaseIllegalMarijuanaCourtesyEightyCocaineArthritis Author:James Garner
“Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.” BelieveLittlesHelpingHappensNaturalResearchClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingMechanism Author:Roy Spencer
“Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.” LittlesWinningStreetsFieldsWallResearchPicksInvestingAverageExpertsInvestors Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.” LittlesDoeHas BeensStillsLightAgeLyingUniverseNatureMemoriesMysteryPeriodsResearchDiscoverySorryAffairReservedDiligent Author:Seneca the Younger
“You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.” LittlesUsedCertainSeeingAmountResearchListsLocalsDamnCopiesDriversTruckSellersMarket ResearchBest SellersTruck Driver Author:Jerry Pournelle