Quotes About Research

This exceptional ability to interconnect observations and ideas from different disciplines lies at the very heart of Leonardo's approach to learning and research.

Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.

It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.

Sometimes, you fact-check and research the congressman's speeches. The year is 1999, and you seem to be the only one in the office who knows how to perform an Internet search properly. "You're a wizard, Aviva," says the supervisor.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

It has been said that intelligence is not about knowing everything, but about knowing where to find everything.)

Our research shows that as your business grows, this can reasonably be held at or below 30 percent of gross revenue (GCI).

Those milliseconds add up. Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

Decision researchers were trying to reduce errors, which is important, but we also needed to help people gain expertise and make insightful decisions.

One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.

Someone once said that if you steal from one writer, it's called plagiarism, but if you steal from several, it's called research. So steal from everybody, but steal only a sentence or a phrase at a time. If you use much more than that, you must get permission and then give credit.

In those early years, I worked endlessly to research every detail that might affect the deal I wanted to pursue. I do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but I can move quickly when opportunities open because I've done the background work first—which no one else sees. I prepare thoroughly. Then, when the green flag is dropped, I can stay ahead of competitors.

A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.

United States spends more on pet grooming than it does on fusion research.

All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

True science begins with observation.

The detailed, scientifically acceptable studies of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine at Duke University, of Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry, of Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler at the College of the City of New York, and of many other serious researchers prove that this can be done.

The idea that ten thousand hours of practice will lead to excellence, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, comes from the research of Anders Ericsson. It is not just that mastery comes from thousands of hours of practice, it is that it comes from a certain kind of practice. What he calls "deliberate practice."16 The difference? Reflection and the application of learning.

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Barna research demonstrates that only 52 percent of Christians are making some effort to grow spiritually, and many of these are inconsistent and achieve limited results.

In fact, the research on the most effective treatments to help child trauma victims might be accurately summed up this way: what works best is anything that increases the quality and number of relationships in the child's life.