Abstract Quote by James Bryant Conant

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is.…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are…

— Lisa Randall

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a…

— Charles Kettering

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the…

— Celia Green

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

— Neil Armstrong

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

— Vannevar Bush

Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the…

— Henry Rosovsky

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the…

— Albert Einstein

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable…

— Michael Shermer

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in…

— Peter Medawar