Best 920 quotes in «research quotes» category

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.

Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

I always like when things [movies] are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

I am all for stem cell research.

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.

I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.