Quotes About Research

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

I like writing historical fiction.

I read more history books than anything else.

Joshua Lederberg

We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

Whenever you go into a new industry, you definitely want to do your homework.

I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.

But one thing I do is I know my football. I watch leagues from all over the world, I do my homework and I love football and could talk to you all day about it.

It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

In San Diego we have a chance to be the dominant hub for nanotech, biotech, life sciences.

When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

A humble scientist is a good scientist.