“The most fruitful research grows out of practical problems.”
Ralph Brazelton Peck (1912–2008) American civil engineer
as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#
Masaru Ibuka in: Nick Lyons (1976), The Sony vision. p. 147
“The most fruitful research grows out of practical problems.”
Ralph Brazelton Peck (1912–2008) American civil engineer
as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#
Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist
Source: 1940s, Action research and minority problems, 1946, p. 35.
“Research, he calls it. Research.”
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Pitkin sneered. “Junkie!”
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. “Economist!”
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
“I don't research anything. If I need something, I'll invent it.”
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) American writer
Crime Time interview (2001)
Michael Lai (1942) Taiwanese virologist (born 1942)
Michael Lai (2017) cited in " Persistence pays for Taiwan virologist who helped stop SARS https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Persistence-pays-for-Taiwan-virologist-who-helped-stop-SARS2" on Nikkei Asian Review, 1 May 2017.
Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994) American neuroscientist
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Context: As a brain researcher, I'd started out simply accepting the strictly objective principles of the behaviorist position. In the 1950s and early 1960s, all respectable neuroscientists thought in these terms. In those days, we wouldn't have been caught dead implying that consciousness or subjective experience can affect physical brain processing.
My first break with this thinking — although I certainly didn't see it that way at the time — came in a 1952 discussion of mind-brain theory in which I proposed a fundamentally new way of looking at consciousness. In it, I suggested that when we focus consciously on an object — and create a mental image for example — it's not because the brain pattern is a copy or neural representation of the perceived object, but because the brain experiences a special kind of interaction with that object, preparing the brain to deal with it.
I maintained that an identical feeling or thought on two separate occasions did not necessarily involve the identical nerve cells each time. Instead, it is the operational impact of the neural activity pattern as a whole that counts, and this depends on context — just as the word "lead" can mean different things, depending on the rest of the sentence.
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Anarchist Morality http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/AM/anarchist_moralitytc.html (1890) <br class="br">Context: The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested — rulers, lawyers, clerics — have carefully enwound her.<br>She shatters the chains. She subjects to severe criticism all that has been taught her, and lays bare the emptiness of the religious political, legal, and social prejudices amid which she has vegetated. She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.<br>But the inveterate enemies of thought — the government, the lawgiver, and the priest — soon recover from their defeat. By degrees they gather together their scattered forces, and remodel their faith and their code of laws to adapt them to the new needs.
C. N. R. Rao (1934) Indian chemist
Quoted in "We need to have an instinct for self-preservation: C N R Rao".
Peter Checkland (1930) British management scientist
Source: Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, 1981, p. 152 as cited in: R.L. McCown (2001) "Learning to bridge the gap between science-based decision support and the practice of farming". In: Aust. J. Agric. Res., Vol 52, p. 560-561