J. Michael Bishop Quotes

In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

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• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

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• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  

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• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

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• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

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• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

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• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

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• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

  

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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

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• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

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• If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

  

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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

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• For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

  

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• To me, the Quran is a research book.

  

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• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

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• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

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• I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

  

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

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• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

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• Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

  

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• I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

  

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• In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Research
  • Evidence
  • Details