Bottom Quote by Deborah Harkness

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that…

— Benjamin Hoff

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and one sometimes…

— Benjamin Hoff

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

— Michael Ondaatje

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to…

— William James

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted…

— Michael Nielsen

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which…

— Peter Kropotkin

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the…

— Lauren Groff

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists…

— Charles Darwin

“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and, furthermore, by…

— Marilynne Robinson