G. H. Hardy Quotes

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Scientists are always skeptics.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

Most scientific problems are defined by the question of whether a graduate student can study it for his thesis.

The primary role of the economist is to find out the truth about the real world.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

I'm a research queen.

I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

Obviously it's a statistics game.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.