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

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

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.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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.

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

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.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

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.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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.

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?

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

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.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

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

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

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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.

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

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.