“This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.” ProjectsApproachResearchBiologistBirmingham Author:Paul Nurse
“I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.” WayFirstsUseGroupsCommunicationInternetProjectsResearchSystematic Author:Joshua Lederberg
“I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.” IfsBelieveDreamI BelieveSecretGreatnessCollegeProjectsResearchPreservesFreshman Author:Edwin Land
“Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.” LittlesKidsTaxesProjectsResearchDollarsGood ThingsFruitFranceParisPublic GoodTax DollarsFruit Flies Author:Sarah Palin
“If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.” IfsKnowsWantTryingImportantIdeasSoundToo MuchFiguresAmountLuckyProjectsResearchWork OutEnthusiasticContradictory Author:Ivar Giaever
“With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects.” WellsGovernmentNationsCommunityUnitedTechnologySupportPolicyProjectsResearchCapacityInstitutionsLinksCapabilityTechnologicalUnited NationsIndigenousTransfersDonorsDevising Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.” WorldYearsCompanyKnownTalentPeriodsProjectsResearchCollectionsFifteenParticipationManhattanFifteen YearsManhattan Project Author:Frederick Reines
“I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They project an image of a woman that is completely absurd, but girls and women believe they should be very skinny. They don't look like real woman anymore.” WayShouldBelieveLooksRealGirlFoundMediaFashionProjectsResearchBlameAbsurdMagazinesSkinnyAnorexiaReal WomenFashion Magazines Author:Oliviero Toscani
“External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.” DesireDependsIndustryNeededProjectsSolutionsResearchSizeDeterminedDependentClientsRequirementsPayment Author:Jeff Fisher
“The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something different and you get to do research.” DifferentCharacterFilmProjectsResearchEverydayBeing DifferentDifferent CharactersCool ThingsAlways Learning Author:Julianne Hough
“I typically go overboard when I research new projects.” ProjectsResearchOverboardNew Projects Author:Will Wright
“Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to do in my life. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.” WritingBookWantedFoundFeltJourneySubjectsProjectsResearchEndlessExpertsFascinationNew Journey Author:David McCullough
“At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.” WorldWritingYearsTwoCharacterCertainStrongWorryNovelWrittenThis WorldProjectsResearchCastsCome UpBiasEngagingStoryline Author:Neal Stephenson
“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!” UseGovernmentVoiceCan DoStupidExampleInternetShapesProjectsSmartResearchDefenseAgencyMapsDisplayGoogleUnclesNavyCiaIphoneSurfNasaNot StupidGpsUncle SamSiriGoogle Maps Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome.” BelieveHumansHas BeensCharacterBeliefResultsOur LivesMastersProjectsResearchConceptsVictimFundamentalsDetermineCoreGenesShatteredDeterminismHeredityGenomeCore BeliefsGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:Bruce H. Lipton
“The thing I learned was the lack of coordination in research projects in the world and therefore you will have gaps in what we could possibly learn from these research projects.” WorldProjectsResearchGapsCoordination Author:Leanne Pooley
“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.” PeopleWorldWayYearsKindLongRealMovingLawChoicesNextTermFieldsDisciplineMetsTenProjectsResearchCommitmentBuiltTraditionSeasonsMedicineCommittedLifestyleAll KindsFantasticLong TermMy TimeSincereAcademicLocationVisionariesLiving OnRigorCafeteriaLifestyle ChoicesFieldwork Author:Aleksandra Mir
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.” DifficultQualityCompanySuccessfulEssentialsProjectsResearchResourcesEntrepreneurFinancialExpertsExpensiveJudgedDominantFinancial Resources Author:George Gilder
“Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.” KnowsEnoughFactsDarkCreativeProjectsResearchFollowingSensitiveDelicateFertileGleamNew Projects Author:Lauren Groff
“Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us nothing about the Underground Railroad aside from Harriet Tubman. So I knew more about it but, obviously, I had to dig deeper and expand my knowledge and do a lot of research once I took this project on. I had, like, a good two months to research before we started shooting, which isn't a lot, and I continued it throughout the five months of us shooting.” TwoBookMotherTeachFiveMonthsProjectsResearchDeeperShootingRelyActivistRailroadsTwo MonthsHistory BooksDig DeepUnderground Railroad Author:Jurnee Smollett
“It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.” ArtDifferentPracticeEssentialsProjectsResearchRealmsNonfictionMultipleSimultaneous Author:Jonathon Keats
“I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!” WritingHas BeensJoyGirlNextFatherLeftGrowsNovelGrowing UpRevolutionPerspectiveGrewProjectsGrew UpResearchExcitedSovietFrustratingCircusHungary Author:Liza Campbell
“While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.” DoneWaterStudyProjectsResearchScientistFourthPhasesDrs Author:Travis Rice
“Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.” YearsMindHeartTwoBookMaterialsMy HeartProjectsResearchTwo YearsTake Me Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination of molecules all the way to the delivery of medicines to patients. Already in the conception and selection of research projects, companies would anticipate all the challenges down the line that they will need to overcome in order to achieve actual health impact. Bureaucratic organizations, by contrast, are notoriously bad at this sort of optimizing.” WayNeedsGovernmentOrderChallengesLinesCompanyPathAchieveProjectsResearchOrganizationOvercomingImpactMedicineComplexesPatientConceptionEfficientContrastBureaucracySelectionExaminationAnticipateDeliveryMolecules Author:Thomas Pogge
“Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.” WorldViewsCommonCareersEconomicProjectsResearchEconomicsArmyPressureLifetimeIncomeRationalAgentsDepartmentConformityAcademicEconomistHypothesisAstonishingCrushedParadigmStardomConformistDeviants Author:Thomas Pogge
“Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.” NeedsYearsBookAsksProjectsResearchFollowingTechniqueThemeWorthwhileTime Spent Author:David Morrell
“Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.” HumansHappensValuesDiesWatchesStudyProjectsResearchPatientFinalsTextbooksDemiseGreat Value Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values.” IfsWorldBelieveReasonRealityLightJobsScienceValuesTurnsDealsMankindProjectsResearchScientistBombsAtomic Bomb Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer
“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
“Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.” MenMadeCausesStudyAirConditionsEventsDegreesProjectsResearchPercentRainAreasScientistBiggerIncreaseSevenClimate ChangeHeavyExtremesStormSnowWeatherGlobal WarmingRegionsTriggersTemperatureIntriguingMoistureRainfallExtreme WeatherRain And SnowHeavy Rain Author:Al Gore