It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

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.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

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.

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.

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.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

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

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

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.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

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

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.

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.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I don’t do research. I never have.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

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

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’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

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.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.