Research Quotes - Page 38

• I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

  Francis Collins

  Party, Thinking, Light

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• Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

  Helen Fisher

  Couple, Intellectual, Together

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• I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

  Jonathan Haidt

  School, Goal, India

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• Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Research And Development, Medical, Reason

  "Health concentrates on achieving more cures for less outlay" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  Hanna Rosin

  Home, Brain, Arousal

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• Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Attitude, Media

  Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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• Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Writing, Views

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• Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Mean, Exercise

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Jam, Raspberries

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

  Hans Selye

  Elements, Chance, Make Her Smile

  Hans Selye (1979). “The Stress of My Life: A Scientist's Memoirs”, New York ; Toronto ; Van Nostrand Reinhold

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• My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Phones, Owl

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• Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

  Ally Carter

  War, Virginia, Biographies

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

  John Ringo

  Voice, Listening, Should

  John Ringo (2013). “There Will be Dragons, Second Edition”, p.15, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Dream, Kissing, Hands

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• Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Night, Drug, Understanding

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Reform, Politician

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Writing

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• Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

  Walter Moers

  Stealing, Plagiarism

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• Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Healthy, Enemy, Degrees

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• All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Obsession, Form

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.299, Canongate Books

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• Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

  Dan Brown

  Google, Synonym

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.235, Random House

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• I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

  Randy Pausch

  Business, Smart, Team

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Religion, Reason Why

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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