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Quotes About Research

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
~ Tony Scott
If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
~ Tad Williams
I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.
~ Roger Connors
As with drawing, using the nondominant hand to write after a visualisation can help to anchor in the creative part of the brain any changes decided. Research has shown that script changes are more effective when the
~ Roger Day
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
~ Roger Ebert
some researchers have found that eating resin or oil from Commiphora or guggulu, lowers blood cholesterol levels. Chinese scientists have discovered that C. myrrha can reduce the development of arteriosclerosis —hardening of the arteries —in animals.
~ Roger Highfield
life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.
~ Roger Highfield
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
~ Roger Wicker
Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
~ Roger Wicker
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)
~ Roland Smith
He made me write my research notes on three-by-five cards. On each card was a scene, a character note, or a detail from my research.
~ Roland Smith
Who's to say what a 'literary life' is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don't need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
~ Roman Payne
questioning existing knowledge through a critical inquiry into evidence and its reading.
~ Romila Thapar
History is not just a directory of information; it also involves analyzing and interpreting this information.
~ Romila Thapar
I have over the years of my research been struck by the frequency with which the present makes use of the past either in a detrimental manner where it becomes a part of various political ploys, or alternatively in a positive manner to claim an enviable legitimacy and inheritance.
~ Romila Thapar
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
~ Ron Kind
Bloom identified a sequence of six learning objectives that he felt moved from lower-order to higher-order thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. However, these ideas were just a theory and were not based on research on learning. Nonetheless, they have become codified into the way many teachers are taught to think about thinking.
~ Ron Ritchhart
Maandag stierf hij, 102 jaar oud: Ronald Coase, de man die zijn afkeer van de wiskundige modellen in de economie aldus formuleerde: 'Als je de gegevens maar lang genoeg martelt, zullen ze toegeven'.
~ Ronald Coase
He invited anthropologists to study research into the European trials, and termed their recent neglect of this 'even more disconcerting' than the loss of interest by historians of Europe in African parallels
~ Ronald Hutton
the burgeoning of research that had occurred since, internationally, and taking ever more sophisticated forms, had passed them by completely.
~ Ronald Hutton
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
~ Rosa DeLauro
We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.
~ Rosalind Franklin
As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.
~ Lucia St. Clair Robson
You spent five years in a research tub at Radio RX-1 with the Kefahuchi Tract hanging over your shoulder like a huge boiling face, stripped, raw, heaving with some emotion you couldn't recognise. It's been fun,. It's been heartbreak all the way. It's never been less than a trip.
~ M. John Harrison