Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Fashion went from being much more rarefied to being more accessible. Now everything is changing in the art world, too: even the highest level of institutions are becoming more aware of the general public, like the McQueen exhibit at the Metropolitan or the Tim Burton at the MoMA or how the Gagosian does historic Picasso shows, bringing museum quality into a gallery. Galleries are becoming more like museums, and museums are becoming more accessible. In the next decade, I think it'll be blown open: there will be a lot of shifting around in terms of how artists approach their work.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.