Quotations about Research
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. ~ Arthur Bloch
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. ~ Sir Peter Medawar
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. ~ Helene Deutsch
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it — three minutes; to collect the data in it — all my life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. ~ Brian Moore
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. ~ William Wordsworth
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ~ Marston Bates
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. ~ Robert J. Sawyer
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ~ Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment may at any time prove me wrong. ~ Albert Einstein
If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores. ~ Chinese Proverb
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ~ William Henry
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought. ~ Author Unknown
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. ~ George V. Higgins
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. ~ Linus Pauling
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. ~ H.G. Wells
Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. ~ Arthur D. Little
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein
Research is creating new knowledge. ~ Neil Armstrong
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. ~ Wernher Von Braun
Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build. ~ Gene Luen Yang
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research. ~ Wilson Mizner