Quotes About Research

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The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents

The hyperactivity syndrome supposedly caused by white sugar has never, ever, been verified—and not for lack of trying. In the famous New Haven study, it was the presence of the parents, not the presence of white sugar, that was causing the problem; most of the kids calmed down when their parents left the room.*

One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now

Stuart Williams, a scientist at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, is experimenting with taking fat-derived cells extracted during liposuction and mixing them with glue to print a heart. Williams believes that a 3D-printed "bioficial" heart may be possible in ten years.

America, we believe that praising kids for how smart they are builds their confidence and motivation to learn. We are rather obsessed with the idea of talent and genius and innate abilities. We freely praise our children and others because we think it is helpful. But three decades of research done by Stanford psychologist Carol S. Dweck has proven otherwise.

A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.