Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem. – Martin Chalfie
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. – Charles E. Wilson
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. – Noam Chomsky
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. – Michael Korda
I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything. – David Carradine
The principles and doctrines of the priesthood are sublime and supernal. The more we study the doctrine and potential and apply the practical purpose of the priesthood, the more our souls will be expanded and our understanding enlarged, and we will see what the Lord has in store for us. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
At my father’s request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. – Carl Spitteler
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. – Charles Scott Sherrington
If you’re going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What’s the answer? What’s Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I’m incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there’s always a what if. – Duff Goldman
One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors. – Michael Greger
I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar. – Mo Rocca
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year. – Najib Razak
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. – Charles Jules Henry Nicole
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. – Ferdinand de Saussure
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. – Gyorgy Ligeti
I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly. – Derek Cianfrance
As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved. – Daniella Alonso
I’m a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships. – Deborah Tannen
People put ‘study abroad’ on their resume. I actually like when they don’t study abroad because that means they aren’t entitled. – Millard Drexler
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics. – Daniel Everett
