Research Quotes

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Great, Woman, Soul

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

Happiness, Money, Study

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve Jobs

Great, Best, Judge

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama

Money, Government, Together

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama

Education, Food, Medical

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates

Life, Play, Big

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill Gates

Learn, Facts, Innovation

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
Mitt Romney

Human, Through, Creating

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
Laurel Clark

Experience, Different, Country

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

Human, Everything, Brain

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Andy Rooney

Government, Respect, Perfect

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Bill Watterson

Enough, Scientific, Jerks

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Deepak Chopra

Best, Happy, Shown

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Plagiarism, Steal, Author

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, Same, Baby

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
Stephen Hawking

Change, Great, America

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil Armstrong

Society, Understand, Means

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

Rather, Support, Marketing

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston

Purpose, Curiosity, Poking

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

Good, Morning, Pet

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
E. O. Wilson

Live, Long, Enough

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Real, May, Small

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

Everyone, Support, Cancer

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano

Work, Fight, Hard

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
Jim Valvano

Life, Love, Money

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Greatest, Passion

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. Wilson

Women, Men, Latest

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