Courses Quote by Karl Weierstrass

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

— Lily King

“The only certain way to forge new understanding it to carry out investigations for oneself.”

— Jane Borodale

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

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study,…

— Eugenie Clark

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

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

— Barbara Tuchman

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer…

— Gregory Bateson

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

— Albert Einstein

...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

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an…

— Angela Bassett

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help…

— Willard Van Orman Quine