Quotes About Basic Research

#1. Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental.

Bill Gates

#2. The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets ... It's cheap insurance, since failing to do basic research guarantees that the next major advance will be oened by someone else.

Robert X. Cringely

#3. The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

Ahmed Zewail

#4. Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Carl Sagan

#5. We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

Bill Gates

#6. Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.

Mariana Mazzucato

#7. Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Fred Kavli

#8. Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

Homer Burton Adkins

#9. Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.

Richard Doll

#10. The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

John Vane

#11. In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

Gunter Blobel

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

Henry Markram

#13. Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.

Walter Isaacson

#14. I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Bruce Sterling

#15. Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

Walter Gilbert

#16. The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

John Gurdon

#17. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

Mona Sutphen

#18. If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Paul D. Boyer

#19. No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Arthur Kornberg

#20. I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Jennifer Doudna

#21. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher Von Braun

#22. I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Lamar S. Smith

#23. Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

Luc Montagnier

#24. Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Bill Gates

#25. If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#26. 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

#27. Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Elon Musk

#28. I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

Steve Case

#29. 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.

Hans Selye

#30. I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.

Klaus Von Klitzing

#31. It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

Elizabeth Streb

#32. How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

Bill Gates

#33. I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

Ada Yonath

#34. Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

John Sulston

#35. Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Ahmed H. Zewail

#36. Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#37. I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

James Rothman

#38. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work - brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research

Lysa TerKeurst

#39. Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

John Darnielle

#40. My inspiration is not only based on the theoretical work which is very conservative but also based on the Research work which is very broader aspect, In the state of mind I've learn basic facts from research and i am feeling proud that almost i have completed four researches in my life

Avinash Advani

#41. We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

Barack Obama

#42. The Air Corps ... does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating ... funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

George Brett

#43. Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

Vince Cable

#44. It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.

Alan Tower Waterman

#45. Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#46. I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Bill Gates

#47. Our society in general has is more money equals more happiness and all the research has shown that that's true up to a point, up until you can get your basic needs met, but then really there is other stuff that has a much bigger impact on your happiness besides just money.

Tony Hsieh

#48. The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Joseph Stiglitz

#49. Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Vannevar Bush

#50. Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.

Bert Holldobler

#51. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.

Anthony Fauci

#52. If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

Tom Regan

#53. Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

John Cameron