Research Quotes

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  Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Writing, Science, Curiosity

  Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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• Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

  David Sarnoff

  Distance, Ideas, Realization

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• Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Occupation, Systematic, Artistic

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• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

  Helene Deutsch

  Objectivity, Goal, Ultimate

  Helene Deutsch (1954). “The Psychology of Women: Girlhood”

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• To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Needs, Knows, One Thing

  "Biographical Memoirs V.83" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, National Academies Press, (p. 201), 2003.

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• Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Commitment, Intellectual

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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

  Eye, Science, Thinking

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• Imagination is the highest form of research.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

  Ike Skelton

  People, Medical, Improvement

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• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

  Wernher von Braun

  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

  Arthur Bloch

  Support, Enough, Conclusion

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• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

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• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Tasks, Stories, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Prayer

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

  Charles Kettering

  Mean, Library, Willing

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• All my knowledge comes from research.

  Stan Sakai

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Judging, Lines

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• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Science, Power

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (11), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  Edmund Husserl

  Ideas, Mathematical, Insight

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Cities, Intellectual

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