Quotes About Research

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

You should never ever buy a car in a panic - otherwise you'll buy the first car you see without knowing what you're getting.

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

When I was working on my research project, I found out that all research papers I needed for work were paywalled. I was a student in Kazakhstan at the time and our university was not subscribed to anything.

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

I want Alzheimer's. I want Lou Gehrig's disease. I want Parkinson's. I want Huntington's. I want to be the face and voice of all these neurological traumas. I want them all.

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

We have lots of Neanderthal parts around the lab. We are creating Neanderthal cells. Let's say someone has a healthy, normal Neanderthal baby. Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there's one way to find out.