After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.
I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.
Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be an oceanographer.
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
I've been studying drugs for years.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
Science is what scientists do.
I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
Most important for the circadian field was the pioneering work of Ron Konopka in Seymour's lab.
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
