Quotes About Research

There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there's a good law review article, they should bring it to me.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

The government's duty is to support basic sciences.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I'm not just a scientist.

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and then the other is to run for office.

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Scientists are always skeptics.

It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?