Research Quotes

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

My drug of choice is historical research.

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Cancer research is a growth industry.

We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.

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.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

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

I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.

Research is appreciation.

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.