“Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.” ProblemScienceIndividualDifficultLearningGroupsResearchWorkersDeserted Author:Theobald Smith
“Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.” ProblemGrowsEducationGrowingIntellectualResearchCommitmentIntellectual LifeCenterpieces Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995 Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995
“From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.” GivingRealFactsProblemRealityScienceDifficultUnderstandingNatureLinesViewsStudentsTheoryKeysDevelopmentPureSolutionsResearchInstrumentsPoint Of ViewStandpointDescentEnablingHeredityDifficult ProblemsTrue UnderstandingRecapitulation Author:E.S. Russell
“One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.” PeopleKnowsProblemScienceFieldsMajorsResearchRoundsWheelsInventingMajor Problems Author:Walter M. Fitch
“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.” WorldRealProblemTodayScienceStageMembersResearchProfessionReal LifeFlightLuxuryAppropriateIsolatedTurmoilToday's World Book:The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction Source: The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction
“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
“Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.” PeopleProblemHandsSeemsScienceWaitingChallengesCasesInvolvedSkillsResearchBuiltRiversStrikesBridgesFancyFascinatedConstructionIngenuityBuilderScientific ResearchWhitneyBasic Research Author:Chauncey Guy Suits
“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.” RealProblemSciencePurposeImaginationKnownResearchFlightUnexpectedOverlooked Author:Hugh Latimer Dryden
“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.” KnowsWorldProblemUsedPowerfulKnow HowStudyResearchMethodRewardsHistoricQualified Author:Malcolm X
“The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity.” ProblemBodyIntegrityResearchScientistGlobal WarmingEstablishmentFundingLargesse Author:Piers Corbyn
“. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.” IfsWorldWellsArtStillsProblemTimeInterestingResearchOriginalsNotesPlanningWell BeingUncertaintyStabilityOutstandingScheduling Author:George Dantzig