Quotes About Research

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scientists have determined that staring at a smartphone screen for a long period of time induces a form of hypnosis).

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

it's high-tech medicine brewed up in the Capitol's labs.

Even in the most authentic documentary there is always a fictional person—the person telling the story. I have never created a more fictional character than the researching "I" in my doctorate, a self that begins in pretended ignorance and then slowly arrives at knowledge, not at all in the fitful, chancy way I myself arrived at it, but step by step, proof by proof, according to the rules.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

If we're going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We're doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

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.

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.

We need to read history from the source.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.