Research Criticism Quotes

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.