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Research Quotes


"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."


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


"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."


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


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


"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."


"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not."



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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything."


"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."


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