After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. – Carol P. Christ
There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet. – April Gornik
I’m truly glad I’ve managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research. – Ada Yonath
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. – Bjorn Lomborg
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. – Bernard Cornwell
I do a lot of research. For ‘I Am Legend’, I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust. – Alice Braga
When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me. – Brian Kilmeade
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites. – Brian De Palma
I get a very vague idea and – perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that’s what made me want to be a journalist – I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research. – Aminatta Forna
What my voting record reflects is constantly looking to improve the amount of resources we having going into research, development, and prototypes we have going into renewable energy sources. – Chris Gibson
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. – Clifford Geertz
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. – Adriana Trigiani
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I’m reviewing a book or doing research. – Beth Gutcheon
As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they’re all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities. – Andy Serkis
The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1. – Arthur L. Herman
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You’re scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited. – Brian Sutton-Smith
I don’t inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I’ve uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. – Alan Furst
One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything – tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn’t matter. It’s all productive work. – Ann Leckie
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we’d gone strictly with the ’20s, the movement would have been impaired. – Colleen Atwood
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher. – Bob Beauprez
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
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process. – Cathy McMorris Rodgers