Quotes About Research

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

I'm a firm believer in science.

One of the first things I did when I finished my Ph.D. was work with the police to look at what happened during the London riots in 2011, which took over the city.

I think that we can learn a lot from the first-hand experiences of others and I think that if you look at these readings - celebrities or not - there's information that comes through that is so specific and personal there's no way you could research that.

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.