Research Quotes · Page 44

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that…

— Carl Sagan

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's…

— Don Alias

“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

— Margaret Thatcher

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

— Lionel Shriver

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an…

— Laura Wasser

We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human…

— Du Yun

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints…

— Ron Kind

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80…

— Douglas Coupland

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste…

— Brian Grazer

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as…

— Robert Winston

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand…

— Lucia Puenzo

I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the…

— Mary Alice Monroe

For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables…

— C. Wright Mills

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them…

— Herbert Butterfield

As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not,…

— Christina Hendricks

In order to create predictive algorithms, you need to have a training set. So, that training set is created through our quantitative…

— Brittany Kaiser

I think the interesting thing about elections, as someone who has run through a couple of them, is that people are so…

— Michelle Wu

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied…

— Peter Medawar

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has…

— Ruth Simmons

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I…

— Danica McKellar

“A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

— Raymond Chandler

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

— Mark Walport

Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

— John Engler

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

— Mary McCarthy

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

— John Lasseter

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part…

— Bill Bryson

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

— Charles K. Kao

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

— Anonymous

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

— Luis von Ahn

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and…

— Karina Longworth

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

— George Iles

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

— Mark Walport

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

— Drew Goddard

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

— John Jacob Abel