The two simple reasons I pursued a career in cancer research were my passion for understanding the hows and whys of the functioning of the human body, and my quest to use this understanding to benefit people.
One of the clear strengths of the current era is the recognition of CNS injury associated with cardiac surgery, and the quest to improve our understanding of these outcomes.
Quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli believed the quest to synthesize "rational understanding and... mystical experience... to be the mythos, spoken or unspoken, of our present age".
Application and testing of policy or implementation theories is rare in the health services/policy literature, yet theory is an important tool in our quest to promote better understanding of policy and evidence-based service-provision [ 18].
Since all heavy elements (elements whose atomic number is larger than Boron) have not been produced by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis but rather by stars, the investigation of star formation is related to the quest for understanding the origin of the Earth, planets, and ourselves.
Upon further validation in several independent cohorts with inclusion of a broad range of other neurological disorders as controls, the alterations of these three protein profiles in plasma could potentially provide new molecular markers of disease that contribute to the quest of understanding ALS pathology.
News that a 13-year-old girl, Nicole Madison Lovell, chatted with an 18-year-old man on Kik the night before he kidnapped and murdered her, however, has added urgency to the parental quest of understanding what kids are getting up to on their phones these days.
Running throughout the book, he says, is a gentle quest to overturn the malign understanding of clouds that has long informed western thinking.
I suppose that in my quest to improve policy and understanding I should be trying to fit in better – lose the beard, learn to play golf, start using "impact" as a verb.
