Top 100 Quotes About Research
#1. One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
Mary Roach
#2. This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.
Frederick Reines
#3. We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.
Michael Spence
#4. In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Bill Watterson
#5. Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
Sara Sheridan
#6. Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.
Val Richards
#7. Galen: New research and technological development is out of the question at this juncture. Work up a full proposal for the exhaust port solution and send the plans to Vodran for SSCR. [Document
Alexander Freed
#8. Over the years our research team has repeatedly found that chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#9. I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Albert Einstein
#10. The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
Natasha Trethewey
#11. I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
Sarah Hall
#12. Dietary patterns are set at a very early age - somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#13. I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
Victor LaValle
#14. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Steven Moffat
#16. In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.
Charles W. Pickering
#17. US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.
Edward Snowden
#18. We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
Francis Maude
#19. I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.
Libba Bray
#20. I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#21. 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
#22. The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
Daniel H. Pink
#23. The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
Bill Joy
#24. Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
William Kirby
#25. To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
#26. Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory.
Barbara Oakley
#27. I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
Sara Zarr
#28. Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
Jamais Cascio
#29. The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.
Eric Maisel
#30. Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.
Paul Virilio
#31. Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.
Robin S. Sharma
#32. My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
Peter Agre
#33. I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar
#34. When you eat sugar, according to research by Bartley Hoebel of Princeton University, it triggers a response in the same part of the brain - known as the "reward center" - that is targeted by cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and other addictive substances.
Anonymous
#35. Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
Paul Davies
#36. What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
Zephyr Teachout
#37. Research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.
Leonard Mlodinow
#38. I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
Raymond Moody
#39. Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
Russell Baker
#40. The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.
Charles Vest
#41. Jason had attended debutante balls. Knew the drill. My crew would have to conduct research on YouTube. Jason was popular on the cotillion scene. My guys weren't even on the radar. Asking Jason would get Whitney off my back. Inviting only Morris Island boys might plummet her into a depression.
Kathy Reichs
#42. If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Charles Vest
#44. The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.
Tom DeLay
#45. Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.
Liane Moriarty
#46. Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.
Andy Weir
#48. Research suggests that the earliest flying reptiles swallowed small pieces of volcanic rock and could breathe out flammable gases like hydrogen produced in their own bodies. It is hypothesized that their ingenious "fire breath" was used as a defense against predatory reptiles.
Karen Shanor
#49. The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Damian Marley
#50. When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
Jason Patric
#51. I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.
Christopher Nolan
#52. Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.
Ryan Holmes
#53. Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.
Dan Brown
#54. The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.
Katie Cassidy
#55. With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
John Fusco
#56. Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
Nicholas Negroponte
#57. No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#58. I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there's a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.
Laurie Glimcher
#59. I love the fact that in the cancer universe you have a lot of money going towards research, but this is about cancer support. It allows people to receive information to facilitate their healing. It's a revelation and just phenomenal.
Billy Zane
#60. I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
Ada Yonath
#61. 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
#62. I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Douglass North
#63. Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?
Brandon Sanderson
#64. Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.
Carl Sagan
#65. I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
Chris Cleave
#66. BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.
Emma Watson
#67. No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'
Jean Chatzky
#68. We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.
Genevieve Cogman
#69. Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).
Dave Ulrich
#70. Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.
Moby
#71. The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
J. Michael Bishop
#72. Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
Brendan Fraser
#73. Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.
Theobald Smith
#74. Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
Robin Marantz Henig
#75. said Paul Howard-Jones, the British neuroscientist who leads the University of Bristol's NeuroEducational Research Network, games will become central to schools. "I think in thirty years' time, we will marvel that we ever tried to deliver a curriculum without gaming.
Greg Toppo
#76. Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.
Donald Clark
#77. I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#78. Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
Barry Mazur
#79. My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.
Jonas Salk
#80. By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
Buzz Aldrin
#81. Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.
Zhang Xin
#82. The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
Ted Nelson
#83. I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
Mohammed Morsi
#84. Hours of research can cut months of field work.
E. Lee Spence
#85. UX designers have to constantly learn about human psychology, interaction design, information architecture and user research techniques, just to name a few, in order to create the right solutions to a user's problems.
Jenifer Tidwell
#86. As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
Anita Diament
#87. Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.
Stephen King
#88. You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research as you want, as you can. Now that you have such open access to the Internet, it's very easy to do so.
Guy Burnet
#89. It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it.
Molly Harper
#90. According to research done by Cimigo, on average internet users in Vietnam spend about 2 hours online everyday.
Chandler Nguyen
#91. I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.
Cynthia Kadohata
#92. To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.
Bill Maher
#93. Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas ... ?
Robert Gibbs
#94. I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.
Philip Larkin
#95. I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.
Ahmed Zewail
#96. Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.
Ann Louise Gittleman
#97. No research without action, no action without research.
Kurt Lewin
#98. 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
#99. Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.
Lauren Beukes
#100. Cushman, who assigned her to research McCarthy's assault on civil liberties, "wanted me to understand two things," Ruth recalls. "One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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