source: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.2

topic: Science, Research, Scientific Research, Basic Research

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

- Rolf-Dieter Heuer

topic: Research, Losing, Stage, Basic Research

Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.

- Glenn T. Seaborg

topic: Country, Space, Discovery, Space Program, Isotopes

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

- Lamar S. Smith

source: "National Science Foundation funded climate change musical to tune of $700,000" by Perry Chiaramonte, www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2014.

topic: Our World, Discovery, Support, Save A Life, Basic Research

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

topic: Cancer, Grandchildren, Agony, Great Grandchildren, Basic Research

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

- Elizabeth Streb

topic: Air, Land, Arrows, Basic Research, Bullseye

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been there," and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research - basic research that can't be done before you go there.

- John Glenn

source: Source: beforeitsnews.com

topic: Thinking, Space, Interesting, Basic Research

It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

- Lewis Thomas

source: Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

topic: Technology, Medicine, Long, Long Haul, Basic Research

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

topic: Research, Next, Guarantees, Basic Research

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

- Barack Obama

source: "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2013.

topic: Education, Money, Party, Basic Research

It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics that would eventually produce the CAT scan. The calculations of today's GPS satellites are based on the equations that Einstein put to paper more than a century ago.

- Barack Obama

topic: Cat, Gps, One Day, Solar Panels, Calculations

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

- Ahmed H. Zewail

topic: Mind, Research, Recruit, Basic Research

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

- Bill Gates

source: "Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

topic: Biotech, Basic Research

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

topic: Baby, Successful, Trying, Basic Research

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

- Steve Case

topic: Thinking, Government, Credit, Basic Research

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Technology, Government, Advancement, Basic Research

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

source: Hans Selye (1979). “The Stress of My Life: A Scientist's Memoirs”, New York ; Toronto ; Van Nostrand Reinhold

topic: Elements, Research, Chance, Make Her Smile, Basic Research

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

- John Glenn

source: Source: beforeitsnews.com

topic: America, People, Important, Education For All, Basic Research

The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

- Cesar Milstein

topic: Nature, Cutting, Technology, Basic Research

Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

- Chauncey Guy Suits

topic: Hands, Bridges, Skills, Builder, Whitney

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

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Research, Should, Application, Basic Research

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

- Iain Banks

source: "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

topic: Legacy, Fiction, Fabric, Basic Research

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

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Writing, Research, Nonfiction, Writing Nonfiction, Fiction And Nonfiction

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

source: "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

topic: Basic Research

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

source: "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

topic: Basic Research

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

source: "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

topic: Basic Research

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

- Henry Markram

topic: Cells, Drug, Brain, Meticulous, Basic Research

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

- Kenneth G. Wilson

topic: Government, Research, Should, Basic Research

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

topic: Mean, Government, Support, Basic Research

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