Research Outcome Quotes

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.

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

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

The political movement funds these people with donations if they produce the right outcome in their research. So that tends to dictate what kind of research you're gonna get in your lifestyle, if your living depends on it. But there's no question that they have, in this movement, converted a bunch of just everyday, ordinary meteorologists into huge proselytizers for it. Ordinary everyday local news-weather guy has become one of the biggest proponents - whatever market you go to - of global warming.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.