- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We have to decide where to place our bets. We can't just cover everything we do.
- Embryonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gene therapies on my body are to measure the effects on humans. There is plenty of animal research to support these gene therapies but no one was conducting human tests.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020