Norman Lamm Quotes

I'm a research queen.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.

Science is what scientists do.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.