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“People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.”

People Kind Stills Difficult Sound Research Difficult Times

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

World Sound Common Four Wonderful Adventure Wall Research Fellows Wide Common Sense Realms Venture Respectable Homely Four Walls

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Important Ideas Sound Too Much Figures Amount Lucky Projects Research Work Out Enthusiastic Contradictory

Author:Ivar Giaever

“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.”

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

“Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.”

Humans Funny Science Sound Cutting Worst Research Ears Scientist Glasses Determined Bottles Knives Forks Moron Irritating Picnics

Author:Peter Sagal

“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.”

Men Long Young Sound Numbers Effort Teaching Depends Healthy Research Men And Women Scientist Core Adequate Disinterested Carrying On New Knowledge

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!”

People World Stories Inspiration Sound Inspire Source Involved Scene Research Meetings Plot Volunteer Twists Intuitive Source Of Inspiration Plot Twists

Author:Mary Alice Monroe