Quotes About Research

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of that right.

As a company, we don't contribute to any cause except noncontroversial things like a breast cancer walk. I don't know anybody who is 'for' breast cancer.

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

When I do jokes that maybe are seen as social commentary, I research them to the nth degree. I probably do more research than I do actual joke writing. I want to make sure what I'm saying is correct.

I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.

I've been working in cosmology since 1964.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

I can't say when we will have a cure, but we now know through our findings how to ask the question of what is going wrong at the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

There are many in the AIDS community who have said we won't find a cure in the foreseeable future. Well, you certainly won't find it if you're not looking.

I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'