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- Nov 07, 2020
Research Quotes
On research, discovery, and what the data shows.
One quote defines research almost as improvisation - doing something without knowing exactly what you're doing - while others cite concrete findings on how teacher quality predicts a student's long-term outcomes. Doing picks up that first thread.
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- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm jumping on a trend to try to engage my younger constituents. They need to know that a lot of what's happening now will impact their futures. If taking a 'selfie' with the chair of the SEC, Steny Hoyer, or Alzheimer's research advocates, gets their attention, then it's worth it. Plus, it's fun.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
- Embryonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.
- Embryonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
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- Nov 07, 2020