Quotes About Research

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it.

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on the theater or the movies, including the technical ones.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.