If anybody wanted to photograph my life they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs spent time with Homicide Cold Case and SVU detectives hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets viewed an autopsy went to a police firing range and witnessed court cases and I read read read.
If we knew what it was we were doing it would not be called research would it?
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters the ethical constraints that this research requires.
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
Each one of us and indeed all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria and the search for solutions.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943 both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political intellectual and cultural leaders in Asia.
But I am just as appalled that my experience knowledge dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent detect diagnose and treat disease and disability from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
As this body of knowledge has evolved a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief thing with person fact with aesthetics knowledge with application of knowledge.
The greater the step forward in knowledge the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Research is creating new knowledge.
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored wouldn't we? We keep looking searching trying to get more knowledge.
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.