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Quotes About Research

Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
~ Peggy Whitson
Preparation is everything. You don't like being interviewed by someone who hasn't done their research.
~ C. J. McCollum
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
In 1936, money had no important role. Interest rates were one-eighth of one-eighth of one per cent. I did some research, and I found that the interest on one million dollars of ninety-day Treasuries was $37. People didn't even bother to collect it. The Fed wasn't important.
~ Paul Samuelson
It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.
~ Shuji Nakamura
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading research and innovation public funding agency.
~ Mark Walport
It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.
~ Reinhard Selten
Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.
~ Doug Ducey
'Unforgiven' gave me the opportunity to be a complete changeling: the blonde hair, the research that I did at the prison. It changed the perception of me.
~ Suranne Jones
I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.
~ Pamela Druckerman
I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.
~ Steve James
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.
~ Thomas R. Cech
Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
~ E. O. Wilson
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
~ Dan Aykroyd
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
~ Andrew Greeley
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
~ Evan Hunter
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.
~ Allen Weinstein
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
~ Tom Allen
When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.
~ Donald Tusk
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
~ Clive Owen