We should encourage and support scientific and technological research.

A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated – flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. We just want to make great products.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

I don’t do research. I never have.

The search for nirvana, like the search for utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle

Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.