{"quotes":[{"text":"I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["research","me","dark "],"id":3391,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding about six hundred volumes - all classics on the history of Soalris, starting with the nine volumes of Giese's monumental and already relatively obsolescent monograph. Display for its own sake was improbable in these surroundings. The collection was a respective tribute to the memory of the pioneers. I took down the massive volumes of Giese and sat leafing through them. Rheya had also located som reading matter. Looking over her shoulder, I saw that she had picked one of the many books brought out by the first expedition, the Interplanetary Cookery Book, which could have been the personal property of Giese himself. She was pouring over the recipes adapted to the arduous conditions of interstellar flight. I said nothing, and returned to the book resting on my knees. Solaris - Ten Years of Exploration had appeared as volumes 4-12 of the Solariana collection whose most recent additions were numbered in the thousands.","author":"Stanisław Lem","tags":["cooking","knowledge","research"],"id":3853,"author_id":"Stanis%C5%82aw+Lem"},{"text":"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["job","old-books","research","writer","writing"],"id":4879,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":". . . I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem. There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and, as we'll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequences. 'After the O.J. Simpson verdict, one of the jurors appeared on TV and said with absolute conviction, 'Race had absolutely nothing to do with my decision,'' psychologist Joshua Aronson says. 'But how on earth could she know that? What my [and others] research . . . Show[s] is that people are ignorant of the things that affect their actions, yet they rarely feel ignorant. We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["implicit-bias","psychology","research","science","unconscious"],"id":9591,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"If we knew all the answers, there will be no research.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answers-and-questions","education","learning","research","science"],"id":12156,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers, to see what the effects are, and they're doing it the proper scientific way, in clean white hospital rooms, away from trees and flowers and the wind, and they're surprised at how many of the experiments turn sour. They've never taken any sort of psychedelic themselves, needless to say. Their volunteers - they're called 'subjects,' of course - are given mescaline or LSD and they're all opened up to their surroundings, very sensitive to color and light and other people's emotions, and what are they given to react to? Metal bed-frames and plaster walls, and an occasional white coat carrying a clipboard. Sterility. Most of them say afterward that they'll never do it again.","author":"Alexander Shulgin","tags":["drugs","lsd","research","shulgin"],"id":12307,"author_id":"Alexander+Shulgin"},{"text":"This is the story I am working on. But it isn't complete as I don't have the right way to begin. I sit on the crosshouse floor and look at the objects. I see different ways they could be put together and the way the story changes over time. The objects fall into their groupings and they talk to each other in different fashions depending on where they're put and at first it makes me panic. I put the memories together again and again in their different patterns and try to understand which is the correct way. Then at last I see that there isn't one. I see that if I am lucky and do it right, the story will not ever come together in one final meaning. Because there is not yet any end.","author":"Anna Smaill","tags":["documentation","history","life","memory","research","writing"],"id":12361,"author_id":"Anna+Smaill"},{"text":"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?","author":"Alex Chiu","tags":["believe","research","people "],"id":16017,"author_id":"Alex+Chiu"},{"text":"But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.","author":"Katherine Howe","tags":["colleen","conversion","katherine-howe","ms-slater","questions","research"],"id":16145,"author_id":"Katherine+Howe"},{"text":"Good' now is better than 'Best' never.","author":"Phillip Gary Smith","tags":["creativity","development","discovery","doing","inspirational","outlook","research","writing"],"id":17227,"author_id":"Phillip+Gary+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":372,"pages":38,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}