- Nov 07, 2020
Basic Research Quotes
The unglamorous work behind big breakthroughs.
Basic research quotes here highlight government funding, long-term medical discovery, and inventions like the internet that started as unglamorous science. For a related angle on innovation, see brain quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
- Brain Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020