Research Quotes

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

Sarah Dessen
- Write
- Writer
- Fiction
Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Russell Baker

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Thomas Kuhn
- Science
- Way
- Change
I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

Bill Gates
- Name
- Research
- Paths
Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

Edward Hallowell
- Children
- Book
- Happiness
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

Carol S. Dweck
- Children
- Shows
- Minutes
But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.

Ben Lerner
- Problem
- Failure
- Language