Research quotes

Explore the witty and profound words of renowned scholars with our Research category. Uncover enlightening quotes and delve into the depths of knowledge, deemed essential in the pursuit of wisdom.

It isn’t the whiskey they choose, it’s the image.

- David Ogilvy

Some copywriters write tricky headlines – double meanings, puns and other obscurities. This is counter-productive. In the average newspaper your headline has to compete with 350 others. Readers travel fast through this jungle. Your headline should telegraph what you want to say.

- David Ogilvy

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

- David Ogilvy

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

- David Ogilvy

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

- David Ogilvy

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

- Gina Gershon

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

- John Charles Polanyi

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

- John Olver

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

- James S. Coleman

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

- Frederick Reines

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

- James S. Coleman

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

- Jerome Isaac Friedman

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

- Albert Einstein

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

- Amar Bose

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

- Luc Montagnier

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

- Bruce Sterling

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

- Sidney Altman

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

- Helen Dunmore

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

- Douglass North

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

- Walter Wager

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

- Parminder Nagra

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

- Nora Roberts

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

- Thad Cochran

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

- Kenneth H. Cooper

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

- Frank Press

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

- Rick Larsen

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

- Robert Teeter

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

- Charles Vest

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

- Temple Grandin

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

- Lois Capps