Research Quotes

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. (Wernher von Braun)
Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism if you take it from many writers, it's research. View quote
Wilson Mizner
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?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. View quote
John Forbes Nash
Research is creating new knowledge. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. View quote
Roger Ebert
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. View quote
Leon Uris
I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning. View quote
Mitt Romney
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. (Konrad Lorenz)
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research. View quote
Tony Bennett
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. View quote
David Ogilvy
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. View quote
Imre Lakatos
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. (Bill Watterson)
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. View quote
Steven Moffat
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. View quote
Paul Dirac
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78. View quote
Paul Dirac