Research Quotes - Page 36

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Needs, Want, Increase

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• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Running, Wall, Microsoft

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• Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

  John Forbes Nash

  Mad, Would Be, Normal

  "Quantum Phaith" by Jeffrey Strickland, (p. 197), 2011.

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  Conan O'Brien

  Alzheimer's, Cells, Brain

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Education, Cutting

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• I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Birth Defects, Dimes, Prevention

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• Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

  Christine Pelosi

  Cells, Foxes, Michael J Fox

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• To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Adults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

  Ron Perlman

  Culture, Bikers, Continuing

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 31, 2008.

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• I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Writing, Years

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• But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

  Steven Pinker

  Gmos, Perception, Brain

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• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Verbs

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• The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

  John Podhoretz

  Suicide, Children, Media

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• Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

  Nancy Reagan

  Cells, Together We Can, Giving

  "Frist Breaks from Bush on Stem Cell Research; Terror Suspects in Custody in London and Rome; Energy Bill Extends Daylight Savings Time". “Live From...”, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2005.

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• I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

  Nancy Reagan

  Grateful, Cells, President

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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  Nancy Reagan

  Cells, People, Polls

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• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  Nancy Reagan

  Cells, Long, Answers

  "First lady: Stem-cell research ethical balancing act". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  Nancy Reagan

  Opportunity, Cells, Promise

  "Reagans Cheer Obama Stem Cell Order — But Not Invited To Ceremony" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Play, Keys

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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

  Marilynne Robinson

  School, Degrees, Fiction

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• I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

  James Rollins

  Morning, Procrastination, Thinking

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

  Mitt Romney

  Creating, Cells, Cloning

  Press conference, May 2005.

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• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Respect, Government, Perfect

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