Quotes About Research

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.