- Life
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research foundation. If you don't raise money and provide research grants, you'll never attract scientists, and if scientists aren't working on a cure, there isn't going to be a cure.
- Great Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
- Everyday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020