Best Science Research Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.”

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Author:Laurel Clark

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”

Source: The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures

“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

“Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.”

“Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.”

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Author:Paul Dirac

“May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.”

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”

“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”

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Author:Marston Bates

“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”

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Book:Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Source: Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

“Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.”

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Author:Laurel Clark

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

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Author:John Dewey

“The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.”

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Author:Lord Kelvin

“The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

“A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

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Book:Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.”

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Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

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