J. Michael Bishop famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
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I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.
-- J. Michael Bishop
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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.
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Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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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.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
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