Quotes about Research

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”

“Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.”

“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.”

“What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.”

“Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.”

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

“Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.”

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

“Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.”

“Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.”

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

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

“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”