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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
Sidney Altman
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher von Braun
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
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"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
Philip Zimbardo
"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
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"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."
James Franco
"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."
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"I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute."
George Andrew Olah
"I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
Bob Ehrlich
"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it."
Sidney Sheldon
"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it."
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"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."
Thomas Kuhn
"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."
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"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before."
Luc Montagnier
"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
Mort Walker
"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
Alan Dundes
"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
Vernor Vinge
"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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"I don't research anything."
Derek Bailey
"I don't research anything."
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"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word."
Peter Gay
"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word."
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"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
Thomas Friedman
"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
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"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
James Rainwater
"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
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"I really wanted to do research. That has never changed."
Amar Bose
"I really wanted to do research. That has never changed."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
Stanley Smith Stevens
"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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"I become kind of obsessive about research."
James Franco
"I become kind of obsessive about research."
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"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
Charles Nicole
"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
Rudolph A. Marcus
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
Jackie Collins
"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
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"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."
Robert Sternberg
"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."
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"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
Mitt Romney
"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Raymond Chandler
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
Marlo Thomas
"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
Michael Ondaatje
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
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"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
Bruce Sterling
"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
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"I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come."
Ann Rule
"I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come."
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"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
Ron Reagan
"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
Walter Gilbert
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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"I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can."
Elizabeth Edwards
"I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can."
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"But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research."
Amar Bose
"But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research."
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"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."
Jennifer Connelly
"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
Stanley Smith Stevens
"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
Leon Uris
"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
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"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
Nathalie Sarraute
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
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"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
Eliot Engel
"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
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"We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research."
Abraham Robinson
"We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research."
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"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
Anita Diament
"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
Tom Allen
"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
Ronald Fisher
"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
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"I'm big on research."
James L. Brooks
"I'm big on research."
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"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
John L. Phillips
"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
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"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
Harvey Pekar
"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
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"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built."
Allen Weinstein
"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built."
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"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
Rose Tremain
"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
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"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
Seth Lloyd
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
Cynthia Payne
"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
Katherine Dunn
"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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