Political Quotes

“basic research is a building block of American innovation. Without it, profound breakthroughs in science, medicine, technology and other fields would simply not happen. In Washington State, we know investments in basic scientific research are a key ingredient to the future of our information economy--from aerospace and agriculture to technology and health care, and across all sectors of our economy. It is in that spirit that, today, I recognize my constituent Dr. Yuichi Shoda of the University of Washington and his colleagues, Dr. Walter Mischel and Dr. Philip Peake, for their receipt of a Golden Goose Award for federally funded research. The Golden Goose Award recognizes the immense benefits of federally funded research to human knowledge and our economy by shining a spotlight on obscure studies that resulted in significant impacts to our society and major breakthroughs. Dr. Shoda and his colleagues are being honored for their seminal longitudinal research project that has become known as ``the marshmallow study.'' This study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, began in the 1960s. The study presented children aged 4-to-5- years-old with a choice between a single marshmallow they could eat immediately or the promise of two marshmallows for which they would have to wait. Dr. Shoda and his team discovered a significant correlation between how long children were able to wait for the treat and social and academic traits as they became adults.…”