No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

Study men, not historians.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.