Quotes About Research

Every day online is a new discovery.

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

I have aging as a disease.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

You are not just about death and disease.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.

If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Experimentation is an active science.

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

It's amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.