“A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.” NeedsFeelsEnoughPlayMomentsGuyComedySeriousFindingsResearchFunctionSillyAnalysisDramaticUsualBentThat Guy Author:Christoph Waltz
“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldWritingMeanCharacterHelpingStoriesBodyPoliticalDealsBreakEconomyElementsResearchFunctionBreaking DownStarvingMain Characters Author:Leigh Bardugo
“Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.” FormValuesResearchEconomicsFunctionFollow MeMarket Research Author:Erik Adigard
“I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.” WorldResearchFunctionVery DeepSociopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“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.” FirstsLooksMayRealMatterEvolutionProveResearchFunctionDuesAccidentsOddOutcomesPhenomenonIrrelevantBiologist Author:E. O. Wilson
“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.” MindHumansScienceNatureImaginationNaturalAnimalAttentionStudyFieldsObjectsSourceHabitResearchDirectFunctionIntelligentStructureDelightWorthyKingdomsExcitementLabourEnlightenedOccupationVegetablesGratificationClassificationAnimal KingdomStructure And Function Book:A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia
“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.” HumansMeanHardProblemScienceEasyIssuesInvolvedFindingsProjectsIntellectualResearchFunctionCellsGenesParticipationSequenceGenomeGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:Sydney Brenner
“If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.” IfsSupportTypeMembersLosingResearchFunctionCancerOur SocietyAgonyOrganismsGrandchildrenFamily MembersLiving OrganismsGreat GrandchildrenBasic Research Author:Paul D. Boyer