Research Quotes · Page 76

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

— Maria Semple

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly…

— Elizabeth Edwards

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

— Andrea Hirata

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

— Christine Pelosi

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

— Harold E. Varmus

“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. —Bernard Haisch”

— Philip Houston

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

— Isabel Allende

So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying…

— Molly Antopol

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be…

— Laurent Fabius

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success…

— Liza Campbell

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk…

— Dale Jamieson

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly.…

— Jacques Barzun

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I…

— Henry Rosovsky

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different…

— Jonathon Keats

“ She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and…

— J.D. Bernal

Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us…

— Jurnee Smollett

I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.…

— Nat Hentoff

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself…

— Galileo Galilei

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I love the creative process of the research, development, but I love also when it comes to reality, it has to be…

— Christopher Bailey

Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,…

— John Forbes Nash

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

— Mitt Romney

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a…

— Robert Irwin

I got to know a policeman up in Cumbria via Twitter and he said if you ever need to do any research…

— Jason Watkins

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

— John Hodgman

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

— P. D. James

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

— Bill Peet

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

— John B. S. Haldane

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

— Julie Payette

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.

— Herbert Hoover

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

— James Howell

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

— Edward Forbes

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

— Bertrand Russell