Research Quotes

1864 Research quotes by 1359 unique authors

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… — Francis Bacon
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. — John Charles Polanyi
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics… — Barack Obama
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems… — Aristotle
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it. — Frank Herbert
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit. — Theobald Smith
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work… — Theobald Smith
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. — Charles Kettering
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change. — Thomas Kuhn
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false… — Sheldon Lee Glashow
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes… — Charles Kettering
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key. — Orson Scott Card
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. — Robert Browning
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing… — Edwin Land
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator.… — Claude Bernard
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement… — Richard Willstatter

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