Research Quotes

• 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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  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 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 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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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

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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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• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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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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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

  Neil Armstrong

  Mean, Society, Knows

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Literacy, Blind

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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• Research is creating new knowledge.

  Neil Armstrong

  Creating, New Knowledge

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• What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

  Will Harvey

  Blind, Market Research, Blindness

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Data, Three

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Great Gatsby”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

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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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• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

  Charles Kettering

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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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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• The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

  Celia Green

  Women, Memorable, Science

  The Decline and Fall of Science Aphorisms (p. 1)

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• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Gordon Brown

  Cells, Numbers, Our World

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• In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Love, Pain, Healing

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• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Guy, Generations

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• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

  John Pople

  Pain, Regret, Decision

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• I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

  Ronald Fisher

  Natural, Found, Dogmatism

  "Eugenics, academic and practical". "The Eugenics Review" Journal, 1935.

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• Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Style, Important

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