Quotes about research

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

— Marston Bates

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

— Arthur Bloch

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

— Wernher Von Braun

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

— Eugenie Clark

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

— Helene Deutsch

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.

— Albert Einstein

By seeking and blundering we learn.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.

— William Henry

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

— George V. Higgins

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.

— Arthur D. Little

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

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

— Walter Modell

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

— Brian Moore

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

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Source Unknown

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

— Source Unknown

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

— H.G. Wells

Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.

— William Wordsworth

In academic research, efforts wasted in wrong direction are not wasted as they contribute latently.

— Muhammad Tariq Majeed