Research

(119 votes)   Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(113 votes)   By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(102 votes)   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
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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

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(84 votes)   Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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

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(80 votes)   Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.

Arthur D. Little

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(79 votes)   If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(78 votes)   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
1915-1987, British Immunologist

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(76 votes)   Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher Von Braun
1912-1977, German Rocket Pioneer

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(74 votes)   Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Brian Moore
1921-, Irish Novelist

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(72 votes)   Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

George V. Higgins
1939-, American Novelist

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(71 votes)   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
1922-, American Marine Biologist, Author

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(65 votes)   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

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