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Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.
Thomas SowellThere’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.
Christopher HitchensWe have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
Narendra ModiResearch 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.
Bill GatesThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliLanguage is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Noam ChomskyIt is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Bill GatesI don’t do research. I never have.
Ray BradburyWhy 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?
John F. KennedyI work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady GagaWe’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.
Richard P. FeynmanMy publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
Jordan PetersonThe 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.
Noam ChomskyIf 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.
Mark ZuckerbergThe quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
Bill GatesIn 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.
Bill GatesI’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.
Robert GreeneI’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.
Jimmy CarterEven 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.
Bill GatesWhen 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.
Robert GreeneA man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel JohnsonIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac NewtonI believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.
Kamala HarrisStudy men, not historians.
Harry S. TrumanI 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.
Jane GoodallMany badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
Stephen HawkingThe study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI 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.
Virat KohliIt’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.
Jane GoodallI grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.
Stephen HawkingI 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.
Stephen HawkingAs 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.
Stephen HawkingIn the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert OppenheimerResearch is creating new knowledge.
Neil ArmstrongTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William JamesThrough my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.
Brene BrownIn much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil ArmstrongIn 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.
Brene BrownIt was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane GoodallScientists 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.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe 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.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamCosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
Stephen HawkingThere is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamNo one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Stephen HawkingFacts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein