Read quote“We have to invest in curiosity-driven research: research that comes from a simple desire to improve our understanding of the world.”
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Systematic investigation, inquiry, and the production of reliable knowledge.
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Words on Research
Read quote“This means a lot to me since it recognises interdisciplinary research.”
Read quote“Don't cut back on basic research. It's necessary to the future of this country. That's my message.”
Read quote“The big thing about being in science and engineering is that if you have a good, interesting project going, work is not coming to work, it’s coming to an adventure.”
Read quote“Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”
Read quote“I used to check him and at the same time express to him my sense of the high advantage derived from this establishment in a scientific point of view.”
Read quote“It is necessary to adopt biometric methods in studying characters and variations, and to find the mean or means by coordination and seriation.”
Read quote“Many truths which I then found out from my analysis of patients, and which I accounted original, were in fact widely known findings as I discovered afterwards. This was both a pleasure and a disappointment to me.”
Read quote“My interest in aircraft propulsion began in the fall of 1933 while I was a student at the Georgia Augusta University of Gottingen.”
Read quote“somebody has to be there and dig out the basic fundamental facts”
Read quote“Jeder Mensch hat seinen Fimmel. Auch ich habe meinen Fimmel, die Forschung.”
Read quote“We cannot tell in advance which research will have an impact. It must all be encouraged for its own sake.”