Scientific Research Quotes - Page 4

• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Science, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Heaven, Atheism, God's Creation

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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• Will fluorine ever have practical applications?
  It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.
  A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.

  Henri Moissan

  Truth, Believe, Science

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• The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

  James R Newman

  Science, Self, Research

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• Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and my passion for literature whenever possible if it helps me to wrestle demons, and to more effectively communicate what I believe to be most important to our lives.

  Michael Tobias

  Art, Believe, Passion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

  George Coyne

  Names, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Goal

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• There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

  David Bohm

  Real, Long, Reason Why

  "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden' Variables. II". Physical Review, Volume 35, No. 2 (p. 188), January 15, 1952.

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• I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Long, Research

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Engineering

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• If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about the absolute colours of single surfaces, then that would support my position, in a way that just introspecting our colour experiences can't.

  David Papineau

  Differences, Support, Research

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.

  George Coyne

  Ozone, Names, Atmosphere

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

  George Coyne

  Views, People, Research

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.

  Chet Raymo

  Religious, Successful, Intelligent

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• We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.

  Gordon Stein

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Cutting, Research, Affected

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Attitude, Space, Light

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Impact, Environmental, Attention

  Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment Movement, w2.vatican.va. September 1, 2007.

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• The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

  Juan Williams

  People, News, Research

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Research, Enriching Experience

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

  Wernher von Braun

  Father, Men, Atheism

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