Research Quotes · Page 181

“Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.”

— Richie Norton

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to…

— Mina Loy

Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.

— Richard Cohen

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real…

— Jamie Dornan

I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really…

— John Glenn

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what…

— Alan Tower Waterman

“The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of…

— Marcel Proust

There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at…

— Mohammad Marandi

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do…

— Simon Schama

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and…

— Shelby Steele

I think the problem people get into is they want to go into the gym and look at other people's workouts, or…

— Bobby Lashley

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related…

— Leonard L. Berry

“I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to…

— Benedict Anderson

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the…

— Nancy Horan

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded…

— Mary Roach

I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To…

— Jack W. Szostak

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very…

— George W. Bush

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your…

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The question I like to raise to people is at the end of the day, if the richest and biggest corporations think…

— John Dolmayan

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research,…

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the…

— Willis R. Whitney

“We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery.”

— Ros Barber

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

— Carine Roitfeld

I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried…

— Forest Whitaker

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential…

— Tobias Wolff