"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."
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"Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research."
"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
"Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not."
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
"For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself."
"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight."
"If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research"
"According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis."
"My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry."
"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
"You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head."
"The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."
"You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes."
"It was written without fear and without research."
"The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo."
"Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp."
"I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things."
"My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing..."