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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
Walter Gilbert / Physicist
Science
Basic Research
Research
Why
Basic
Learn
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
Victor Vasarely / Artist
Basic Research
Intellectual
Research
Rigor
Sentimental
Alternate
Basic
Necessarily
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This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.
Todd Young / U.s. Representative
Appropriate
Basic Research
Federal Government
Invest
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I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
Jennifer Doudna /
Basic Research
Desire
Focused
Motivated
Research
Basic
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
Ada Yonath /
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Glad
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Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
John Sulston /
Basic Research
Worthy
Applications
Whilst
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Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.
Kenneth G. Wilson / Physicist
Government
Basic Research
Research
Should
Basic
Partner
Supporting
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A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
Lisa Murkowski / United States Senator
Basic Research
Federal Government
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Bruce Sterling / Author
Basic Research
Fiction And Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Paid
Pleasant
Research
Writing
Basic
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Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
Luc Montagnier / Researcher
Application
Basic Research
Research
Should
Useful
Basic
Geared
Toward
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If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer / Physicist
Basic Research
Losing
Research
Stage
Applied
Basic
Invest
Start
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My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
Gordon Moore / Businessman
Basic Research
Hopkins
Physics
Research
University
Applied
Basic
First Job
Lab
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I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
Steve Case / Entrepreneur
Government
Basic Research
Credit
Doe
Funding
Research
Thinking
Basic
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I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.
Lamar S. Smith / U.s. Representative
Basic Research
Discovery
Our World
Support
Discoveries
Expand
Change World Support
Horizons
Save
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In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
Gunter Blobel /
Basic Research
Research
Basic
Cell
Complex
Electron
Microscope
Revealed
Unit
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A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Henry Markram / Professor
Basic Research
Brain
Brain Cells
Cells
Drug
Human Brain
Meticulous
Research
Trials
Basic
Copy
Enable
Virtual
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No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
Arthur Kornberg / Researcher
Basic Research
Medicine
Proven
Advances
Lifeline
Practical
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We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
Michael Rosbash /
Basic Research
Enlightened
Institute
Post War
Research
Basic
Period
Enthusiastically
Generously
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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 / Investor
Technology
Advancement
Basic Research
Funding
Research
Good Government Better
Basic
Commercial
Companies
Rapid
Tends
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Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.
Fred Kavli /
Basic Research
Research
Basic
Border
Edge
Forward
Lead
Secrets
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It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
John Gurdon /
Health
Basic Research
Body
Clear
Different
Human Health
Identity
Prospects
Research
Testing
Basic
Cell
Human
Particularly
Genetic
Originally
Pleasing
Purely
Turned
Types
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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 / Chemist
Agony
Basic Research
Cancer
Family Members
Function
Grandchildren
Living Organisms
Losing
Members
Organisms
Research
Basic
Likely
Spared
Types
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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.
John Gurdon /
Basic Research
Involved
Obvious
Research
Support
Therapeutic
Basic
Benefit
Practical
Purely
Scientific
Though
Value
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The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.
Ahmed Zewail /
Basic Research
Envy
Investing
Education Science World
Sustainable
Maintain
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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.
Klaus Von Klitzing /
Barriers
Basic Research
Borders
Ideological
Offers
Overcoming
Reaching
Research
Best Future Work
Basic
Best Work Future
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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.
Mona Sutphen /
Basic Research
Competitiveness
Focused
Health Care
Infrastructure
Innovation
Pursue
Retirement
Robust
Education Health Care
Retirement Security
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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.
John Vane /
Knowledge
Basic Research
Folklore
Research
Serendipity
Today
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow World
Accumulate
Arising
Based
Discoveries
Medicines
Scientific
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates / Investor
Government
Able
Basic Research
Big Problems
Crucial
Fund
Huge
Innovation
Needs
Play
Policy
Public Policy
Research
Resources
Solutions
Will
Sure
Also
Everyone
Make
Basic
Them
Part
Component
Public
Set
Governments
Huge Part
Improves
Problems
Provide
Reach
Solving
Uniquely
Which
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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.
Jens Martin Skibsted /
Basic Research
Developing
Financing
Funding
Host
Moon
Nasa
Tesla
Venture
Venture Capital
Agencies
Apple
Capital
Darpa
Provided
Received
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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 / Author
Arrogant
Basic Research
Fabric
Fiction
Foolish
Furniture
Legacy
Science Fiction
Basic
Fail
Practically
Ignore
Plain
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