Quotes About Research

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Everyone is doing forensics.

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.

According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.

I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

My collaborations with V. Radhakrishram and B. G. Clark were especially fruitful.

The most fun part of my day is when I get to play with my lasers.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I think people love fundamental science.

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.