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Research Quotes


"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."



"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."


"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."


"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."


"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."


"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."


"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."


"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."


"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."


"The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep."


"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."


"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."


"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."


"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."


"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."


"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."


"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."


"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."


"Find as much information about your subject as you can."


"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."


"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."


"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
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