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Quotes About Research

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
~ Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up.
~ Albert Einstein
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If the Lord wishes to use editors and compilers to bring His message to us, that is His decision. And so He has decided. The truth of 2 Peter 1:20, 21 still stands: Scripture has come to us by the Holy Spirit, whether it be through revelation or research, secretary or scribe, editor or compiler – or by large letters written by Paul's own hand. Any way you write it, it is still God's Word.
~ Alden Thompson
The interview is two things at once: a tool for research, and the opening of a narrative space.
~ Alessandro Portelli
Still, real information continued to drip out – often tucked away in scientific papers that went unnoticed, such as when a German research institute reported in mid-April that lockdowns had been broadly useless. Yet – more than two months after they began – the lockdowns continue. Only Alaska has gone
~ Alex Berenson
Marijuana causes paranoia and psychosis. That fact is now beyond dispute. Even scientists who aren't sure if marijuana can cause permanent psychosis agree that it can cause temporary paranoia and psychotic episodes.
~ Alex Berenson
Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.
~ Alex Chiu
Recherches philosophiques sur les Americains.
~ Alexander Hamilton
There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.
~ Alfie Kohn
The research is clear: getting children to focus on their performance can interfere with their ability to remember things about the challenging tasks they just worked on.67
~ Alfie Kohn
The research suggests that praise may have [a negative, unintended] effect, directing attention away from the task [at hand] and toward your reaction.
~ Alfie Kohn
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
~ Alfred Einstein
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
~ Jay Inslee
Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
~ Stephen Gaghan
Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that were at the top of everyone's agenda in the wake of 9/11 and the brief anthrax scare. At the time, some very big investments were made into precisely those issues, especially into scientific research.
~ Anne Applebaum
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
~ Bob Woodward
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
~ Michael Specter
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
~ Christine Gregoire
I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.
~ Bruce Rauner
Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.
~ Barton Gellman