Quotes About Research

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

When we first isolated PD-1, we didn't know what the function of this molecule would be. But while we were working on it for almost 10 years, we realized this is a very important molecule to regulate the immune system.

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

We think machine learning, as it relates to healthcare and life sciences, is extraordinary.

My choice of this business, and that I relatively enjoy innovation and research, is greatly related to my father.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

I sometimes wonder why I do so much research - I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

Leave history to historians.

Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping out of the way.

Historical science is being left in the dust.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.