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

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

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.

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.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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

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

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.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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.

I don’t do research. I never have.

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.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

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

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.

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.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Research is creating new knowledge.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

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

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 statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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

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.

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

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

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

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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 have to be seen to be believed.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

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

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

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

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

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