Human Research Quotes

#1. Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities
that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Calvert

#3. History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Amy Waldman

#4. However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.

Marvin Harris

#5. If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

Leta B.

#6. I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#7. As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

Toshihiko Fukui

#8. Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (or BRAIN) project announced by President Obama, and the Human Brain Project of the European Union, which will potentially allocate billions of dollars to decode the pathways of the brain, all the way down to the neural level.

Michio Kaku

#9. A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

Henry Markram

#10. However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

H. David Burton

#11. Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

Mitch Albom

#12. Medical research has shown that when an 8 week old human foetus is pricked in the palm of his hand by a needle, he opens his mouth and pulls his hand away. There is also an increase in heart rate as a result. This shows that an 8 week old foetus can feel pain

Mark Volman

#13. The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Hugh Downs

#14. One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.

Juan Enriquez

#15. [B]y banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

Stanislav Grof

#16. I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

Karl Pilkington

#17. Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.

Michael Spence

#18. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Frederick Seitz

#19. My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

Luis Von Ahn

#20. Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

#21. I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

Edvard Munch

#23. Raises a fundamental question: are we also evolving genetically? Medical research, added to a deepening analysis of the three billion nucleotide letters of the human genome, has revealed that evolution is indeed still occurring

Edward O. Wilson

#24. Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

Philip Zimbardo

#25. The competencies most relevant to an SSAO role include assessment, evaluation and research, human and organizational resources, law, policy and governance, and leadership.

C. Casey Ozaki

#26. Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

Bill Viola

#27. Wine tasters will mention all sorts of things they can taste in a fine wine, as if they were a human spectrograph with the ability to sense the molecular makeup of their beverage. Research shows, however, this perception can be hijacked, fooled, and might just be completely wrong.

David McRaney

#28. We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

Colin Blakemore

#29. The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

Tom DeLay

#30. I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#31. UX designers have to constantly learn about human psychology, interaction design, information architecture and user research techniques, just to name a few, in order to create the right solutions to a user's problems.

Jenifer Tidwell

#32. Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.

Sigmund Freud

#33. To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

Bill Maher

#34. As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#35. I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

Bill Frist

#36. Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

Peter Sagal

#37. Research has shown that of all forms of human motivation the most effective one is progress. Why? Because a small, concrete win creates momentum and affirms our faith in our further success.

Greg McKeown

#38. I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#39. Rather, my research on the moral emotions has led me to conclude that the human mind simply does perceive divinity and sacredness, whether or not God exists.

Jonathan Haidt

#40. The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. - Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate

Diana Delonzor

#41. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#42. The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Jessa Gamble

#43. Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

Antonino Zichichi

#44. I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Sandy Adams

#45. When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Jim Broadbent

#46. Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

Kenneth R. Miller

#47. I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Mitt Romney

#48. It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.

John Gurdon

#49. The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#50. Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

Jim Ryun

#51. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.

Eric Schmidt

#52. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

Christine O'Donnell

#53. It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.

Rollo May

#54. Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Alison Gopnik

#55. I was also startled by the fact that research participants consistently described both joyfulness and gratitude as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human connectedness and a power greater than us.

Brene Brown

#56. We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Mike Pence

#57. Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

Tan Le

#58. Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

C.V. Wedgwood

#59. It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Stephen LaBerge

#60. I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Adriana Petryna

#61. We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Michael Steele

#62. Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paul Berg

#63. Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

Stanislav Grof

#64. What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Nathan Deal

#65. Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Tom Harkin

#66. While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Nathan Deal

#67. Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

Frank Herbert

#68. I advise people not to research radiation unless they are prepared to take the risks to their own health and mental functioning that the various forms of radiation are known to present to the human.

Steven Magee

#69. The research on male-female attraction tells us that in reality neither males nor females thinks that physical attraction a turn-on. It's the slightly tousled hair, imperceptibly loosened tie, the little flaws that attract someone because we perceive them as human and thus like ourselves

Belinda Jones

#70. Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

Jeff Merkley

#71. Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

Eli Broad

#72. My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Robert Edwards

#73. One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#74. If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#75. Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

Abhijit Naskar

#76. Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.

William M. Gray

#77. Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

John Boehner

#78. The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is that the people behind them are far more human than we tend to admit.

Anonymous

#79. We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

John Boehner

#80. Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Douglas Coupland

#81. More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

Carol S. Dweck