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• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

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• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

  Will Harvey

  Blind, Market Research, Blindness

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• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

  Charles Kettering

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Fields, Certain, Importance

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• I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of books and also had the opportunity to travel to England to do more research.

  Julie Klassen

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

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• In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

  Ronald Fisher

  Natural, Found, Dogmatism

  "Eugenics, academic and practical". "The Eugenics Review" Journal, 1935.

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• One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

  Walter M. Fitch

  Science, People, Fields

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• It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

  Page Smith

  Teaching, Trying, May

  Page Smith (1990). “Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America”, Viking Adult

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• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

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• There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Mean, Science, World

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• Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those who espouse Christianity beware! After digesting the evidence, you will never again view your religion in the same light.

  Robert M. Schoch

  Christian, Light, Views

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• I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Love, Pain, Healing

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• Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Style, Important

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• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

  Book, Guy, Generations

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• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Gordon Brown

  Cells, Numbers, Our World

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• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

  John Pople

  Pain, Regret, Decision

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• Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is so that people can use the deviations as spring boards or opportunities to share the truth, light, grace and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

  Todd McFarlane

  Phones, Focus, Groups

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Love Life

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• The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Issues, Perspective

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• ...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

  David Christian

  School, Offering, Way

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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