“I have endeavoured to give an intelligible account of the leading phonetic results of my investigations.”— Alexander John Ellis
“Instead of taking the single group member as the unit, the group as a whole may be taken as the central problem for the psychologist.”— Kurt Lewin
“At the time, we were all looking for proteins that could do the job of catalyzing the reactions that are necessary for life.”— Sidney Altman
“We did not know for a long time that there was an intermediary between DNA and protein, a messenger that is transient and that is used to translate the information.”— Sidney Altman
“We're excited by the possibility that metformin, an inexpensive and remarkably safe drug, may be able to prevent HIV-positive people from developing both cancer and the cluster of metabolic problems that lead to cardiovascular disease.”— Kathryn Anastos
“The control of cancer must be sought in the study of the autonomous cell.”— Charles Brenton Huggins
“Our interest in the chemical structure of proteins developed in the course of studies on the nutritional requirements of man and of microorganisms.”— Stanford Moore
“Our aim is to move from treating participants' discourse as a transparent medium...to a concern with discourse as a topic in its own right.”— Jonathan Potter
“In the long run, the most abstract, the most 'useless' research is the most useful of all.”— Fernand Braudel
“The final result of all research is not objectivity, but the development of a certain intimacy with the material.”— Alexander Graham Bell
“The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use.”— Catherine Drinker Bowen
“He had the power of keeping the subject in hand, and of using his facts to the utmost.”— Francis Darwin
“Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.”— Hermann von Helmholtz