“Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.” GivingAsksAnswersPolicyProduceFindingsResearchCombiningRight Questions Author:Richard Layard, Baron Layard
“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.” SpaceMeditationEffectsFieldsProduceActivityResearchTime And SpaceConducting Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964 Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.” ProduceAmountDiseaseResearchCleverCuresAllowingClevernessSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.” Has BeensProduceNeededInvolvedResearchComplexityArrangementsUnbelievableDnaFlew Author:Antony Flew
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.” NeedsStatesPoliticalEffortTechnologyEconomicProduceSeriousSourceDevelopmentConflictResearchOrganizationStrategyTerrorismReformAlliesPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentEconomic Reforms Author:Wesley Clark
“My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.” PeopleIfsArtAsksLiteratureInterestingProduceResearchAreasPracticalsFairnessApologizingUsabilityToasters Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.” QualityCreativityProduceResearchConsequenceQuantityRubbish Author:Dean Keith Simonton
“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.” Has BeensWarSeemsLyingSocialPoorBehindsViolenceGroupsProduceSourceResearchHistoricalHistorianMurdererAvoidedParentalAbusiveMotheringSociologistsHistorical Research Author:Lloyd deMause
“Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.” LooksHelpingFormCommunityTechnologyExampleDesignProduceResearchToolsPatternsManageOnlineAmbitiousGroundedComprehensiveSweeping Author:Kurt Squire
“The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.” EnergyProduceResearchScientistClimateBurningAtmosphereFuelConcentrationFossilsFossil FuelCo2IndustrializationBurning Fossil Fuels Author:John Olver
“It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.” IfsWritingTwoBookThreeProduceMonthsPagesResearchNineTake MeThree MonthsNine Months Author:Alan Furst
“I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.” IfsWritingTryingRecordsWeekProduceResearchIf I CouldEpisodesEdits Author:Karina Longworth