Quotes About Research

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.

I run a number of different brain banks.

I like to have something to base a role on.

It's far, far better to be prepared: the more you know about the other team, the better.

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

According to Google's own research into our "eye movements," 53 percent of us don't go beyond the first two search results, and 89 percent don't look down past the first page.

It wasn't easy to learn about Gustave LeBon. For being the father of such an enduring theory, almost nothing has been written about him. Only one man has ever tried to piece his life story together—Bob Nye, a professor of European intellectual history at Oregon State University.

As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld--monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about boring, impenetrable people. ...If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Como instrumento de investigación filosófica, la máquina de pensar es absurda. No lo sería, en cambio, como instrumento literario y poético.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

A good scientist," Gideon explained, "modifies his operational hypotheses to accord with fresh data.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

A similar result from Bristol scientists using a huge dataset called the Avon Longitudinal Study—the gold standard of transgenerational research—showed that men who smoked before puberty sired fatter sons than those who smoked after. Again, something was apparently being acquired and passed on.

though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

There are plenty of scientific theories why they do this, none of which can be summarized as "because they can," disappointingly.

The greatest achievement of the Human Genome Project was working out exactly how little we knew— known unknowns. Once you know what you need to know, the future is laid out in front of you. And so, the map was sketched, and the landscape was set out— where to explore, and what we might be hunting for.

We have no room for the mystical in science

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches … Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' 'Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion' in The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859

Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.