Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

All my knowledge comes from research.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

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.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.