Abraham Flexner Quotes

Learn, compare, collect the facts!

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

I think I'm a good fact finder.

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

I love doing research.

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

There are so many things that go into a surgical study.

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.

All my knowledge comes from research.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

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

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

We think machine learning, as it relates to healthcare and life sciences, is extraordinary.

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.