Quotes About Research

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

For years, I have been observing our 'cancer culture' and I have become convinced that it is not structured to do what we most need: to determine how to prevent cancer, and then implement our discoveries.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab - mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, which means that he presided over a legal form of corporate espionage, breaking down the component parts of competitors' products in order to copy them.

I really thought I knew Johnny Cash. I thought I didn't need to spend a lot of time researching his life. But I wasn't within 50 miles of knowing Johnny Cash. I knew he was a good guy and a dedicated artist, but I didn't know the demons, the struggles he had in his personal life.

It's not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.

It's a disadvantage when there is not enough footage of an opponent.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

Nagini should be played by an Asian. Scriptwriter J.K. Rowling probably searched for an Asian actress because she researched the origin of Nagini.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.