Research Projects Quotes

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.

I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.

You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

The West Virginia NASA Space Grant took me under their wing and taught me everything about applying for internships, scholarships, and performing research at the undergraduate level.

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.