Top 585 Research Quotes

Even if Pfizer committed itself legally to maintaining some of its research and development in the U.K., its takeover of AstraZeneca would involve dismembering an excellent and strategically important British company.
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
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?
Nate Mendel
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
John Vane
Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.
Michelle Paver
The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it’s today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
John Hurt
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
Steve Cropper
To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first – if you’re not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines – ones that are no longer used.
Issey Miyake
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.
Jim Peebles
I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
Shuji Nakamura
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better… Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they’re excited about.
Geoffrey Hinton
Math research is more like a marathon.
Terence Tao
I’m a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
Geraldine Ferraro
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
Aaron Swartz
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill Gates
I tend to change research direction every few years or so.
Terence Tao
Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
Carol Bellamy
The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.
Akira Suzuki
What’s nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.
Abhijit Banerjee
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
Alan Autry
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I’m determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
Ann Romney
We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.
Marlo Thomas
The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect

The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.
George M. Church
I know that I’m going to die and that you’re going to die. I can’t do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.
Chuck Palahniuk
Poll results published with a clear byline for the research reflect a higher degree of confidence in the survey.
N. Bhaskara Rao
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn’t prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson
There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.
Nyle DiMarco
I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
Clifford Geertz
Over the years, I’ve traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.
Jennifer Chiaverini
I’m continuing to do research into biker culture.
Ron Perlman
We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.
Henry Cloud
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
Marie Curie
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
Ron Kind
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
Brian De Palma
Research is especially important when we’re deciding on a new menu.
Ayesha Takia
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
Marvin Harris
Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
H. P. Lovecraft
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Owen Chamberlain
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
Stephen LaBerge
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug
I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
Jack Dangermond
After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
Richard Smalley
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
Nicholas Negroponte
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Deepak Chopra
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
Rose Tremain
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.
Thomas Frank
I’m just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
Thomas R. Cech
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
Donald Evans
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
Mike Pence
In Wisconsin, We’re at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.
Jim Doyle
What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot ch

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You’re born like that.
Jeff Lindsay
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen Hawking
It’s interesting – an actor’s research is different to just historian’s research. I’m looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
Ioan Gruffudd
Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful – I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
Jaime Hernandez