Quotes About Research

If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate them.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Women who may choose to have silicone breast implants are entitled to independent research to ensure they have complete and comprehensive information. It's especially important since so many women have experienced complications with their implants they never knew were possible.

Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Public sharing is an important part of science.

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

Once, I played a doctor who had a near-death experience, so I researched it, and it's impressive what people are saying about what happened to those who've been through it: it changed their lives completely, made them different people after that. I find that immensely comforting.

And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

When times are good, there is budget available for increased research on secondary products or customers.

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.