I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.
