Wil S. Hylton Quotes

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

I'm big on research.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

On February 19th, Dr. Collip found that he was unable to refine the extract by his method and was unable to keep up his supply to the wards. During the following six weeks, or longer, no extract was available for clinical tests. I believe the reason for this to be that Collip, wishing to keep his process a secret, had not kept careful records.

Our bodies are the subject of many experiments, but these experiments on the space station sometimes take years because in order for a scientist to get 10 data points, that can take six or seven years.

Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure

Suppose a State said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.

The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.