Quotes about Research

The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

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.

It was becoming increasingly important for these young missionaries to know every available fact about the Aucas. They read the reports of the Shell Oil Company and talked to anyone who had ever had any contact with the Aucas.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Good News for Coffee Lovers For years many people who love a strong cup of freshly brewed coffee have felt guilty about what coffee might be doing to their health. A growing body of research studies, however, now suggests that drinking up to 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day plays a potential role in preventing a range of disorders, including type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20—8)