Research Success Quotes

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results... In the past I have tried a number of experiments... but without any success.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.