Research Quotes
279 quotes
"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."
"Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"
"The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research."
"Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?"
"The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile."
"It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously."
"Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself."
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
"[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs."
"Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research."
"He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research."
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
"An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor."
"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent."
"I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to Authority when I believed I was right. That is another example of How Not To Do Research. I note it here as a warning to the young. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections
"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."
"Dare to research on the originality of any information."
"Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search."
"Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin."
"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."
"The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you"
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style."
"Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Customers, Employees and Others in that Order will determine the Success of your Company"
"Understand Fundamental & Techical Analysis. Only then will you be Successful in Investing"
"Without the continued existence of the democratic system and of publicly funded education and research, however, most current teachers and intellectuals would be unemployed or their income would fall to a small fraction of its present level. Instead of researching the syntax of Ebonics, the love life of mosquitoes, or the relationship between poverty and crime for $100 grand a year, they would research the science of potato growing or the technology of gas pump operation for $20 grand."
"If we knew all the answers, there will be no research."
"A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing."
"Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can."
"Begin to invest your time into research and studies about how you could impact your world positively because only through the proper conversion of time could you become great."
"Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research"
"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research"
"I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent."
"The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power]."
"Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters."
"Research suggests that sea level adapted humans that work at the very high altitude 13,796 feet summit of Mauna Kea may eventually develop sleep apnea and fatigue from the low oxygen environment."
"The problem with all fields of research is that people are impatient. It a particular line of enquiry seems to be making progress, we continue down the line, but if it seems to be getting nowhere, we abandon it. This is a problem because the route to the future is often tortuous. Things seems to be moving towards the goal but then unexpectedly snake off in the wrong direction. Initially unproductive approaches can often turn out to be the only ones that lead to the desired destination."
"In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited twenty times is more influential than an author who has an h-index = 3 obtained on the basis of three published papers of which each is cited three times."
"The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid."
"[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems."
Robert Epstein, Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence
"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."
"Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression."
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
"Find as much information about your subject as you can"
"You need to do research, to approach the study of the issue from all sides"
"Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation."
"I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the truth happens to inspire, I, in addition, find it easier to believe that he in fact does his homework on how and when one should truly inspire."
"Their [plant secondary compounds] healthful effects in humans, however, are not well understood, in part because things in nature like coriander and basil can't be patented so there isn't a lot of money being thrown at them, and in part because long-term studies that measure small effects of low doses are expensive and don't yield the kind of unambiguous, major effects you get with pharmaceuticals, but mainly because preventions are never as exciting as cures."
Mark Schatzker, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
"Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!"
"Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don’t forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have."
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