Craig Mello Quotes

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Germany is made to travel in, Italy to sojourn in,… and France to live in, [but England was made] to think in.

I am not a gym person, so I do walk a lot. I find gym is incredibly boring. Other thing I do is to devour books because I feel we need to feed our mind as well.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Live always in the best company when you read.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

A university is a place that is established and will function for the benefit of society provided it is a center of independent thought.

But there is no nation under heaven abounding with more variety of learning--where the sciences may be more fitly woo'd, or more surely won, than here--where Nature (take her altogether) has so little to answer for--and, to close all, where there is more wit and variety of character to feed the mind with--

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

I hope my studies may be an encouragement to other women, especially to young women, to devote their lives to the larger interests of the mind. It matters little whether men or women have the more brains; all we women need to do to exert our proper influence is just to use all the brains we have.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.