Heuristics Quote by Imre Lakatos

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

— Charles Kettering

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

— Steve McConnell

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible…

— Irving Langmuir

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

— Imre Lakatos

Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing…

— Charles Kettering

The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable…

— Hope Jahren

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

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

— Martin H. Fischer

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

— Imre Lakatos

“When heuristics don’t yield the results we expect, you’d think we would eventually realize that something’s wrong. Even if we don’t locate the biases,…

— Sheena Iyengar

“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”

— John Brockman

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

— Yann Martel