I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If you judge, investigate.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Study men, not historians.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Before all else, be armed.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

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

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.