In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, ‘What makes for a long life?’ – Katie Hafner
Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say – shift happens. – Marc Andreessen
Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there. – Lauren Beukes
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking – then writing. – Jean Craighead George
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. – Luc Montagnier
If you can help other people understand those truths – and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. – James Collins
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal’s score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research. – Randy Schekman
We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation. – Robert Winston
In fact – statistically, as you know – people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy. – Pat Boone
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. – Rick Renzi
That’s what I like about acting. When you’re preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it’s on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. – Parminder Nagra
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close – there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects – and I began the process of winding down the experiments. – Rudolph A. Marcus
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
Actors who say they don’t watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it’s how I research for auditions. – Rebecca Mader
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. – Robert Darnton
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research. – Ralph Fiennes
I’ve never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong. – Roger Ebert
As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I’ve always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community. – Robert C. Merton
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. – Rose Tremain
One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst. – Robert H. Grubbs
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. – Rupert Sheldrake
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people’s money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. – Roger Wicker
I’ve spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. – Renee Fleming
Hard as it is to imagine, there’s a move afoot in Congress to take away the public’s free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer. – Richard J. Roberts
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense. – Robin Hayes
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. – Paul Berg
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase. – Ron Kind
My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos. – Robert Edwards
