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Research Quotes

On research, discovery, and what the data shows.

One quote defines research almost as improvisation - doing something without knowing exactly what you're doing - while others cite concrete findings on how teacher quality predicts a student's long-term outcomes. Doing picks up that first thread.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

Quotes by Henry Markram

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

Quotes by Henry Golding

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Quotes by Helene Deutsch

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Quotes by Helen Fielding

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical...

Quotes by Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Quotes by Heinrich Rohrer

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some...

Quotes by Heinrich Schliemann

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.

Quotes by Heather Graham Pozzessere

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

Quotes by Harvey Pekar

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and...

Quotes by Harry Markowitz

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the...

Quotes by Harold Urey

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

Quotes by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

Quotes by Hari Kunzru

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Quotes by Hans Vestberg

The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this...

Quotes by Hans Adolf Krebs

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a...

Quotes by Hanna Rosin

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

Quotes by Haldan Keffer Hartline

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a witty definition of research?
Yes — one quote defines it memorably: "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." For more quotes with a similar playful tone, see our Doing quotes.
Is there a quote about someone's academic background in science?
Yes, one quote recalls studying "towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich" between 1949 and 1953, describing that period as when they made their first contacts with fundamental research.
Does this page cite research about teacher effectiveness?
Yes — one quote states, "Research confirms that great teachers change lives," and that students with an effective elementary school teacher are "more likely to go to college" and "less likely to become pregnant as teens."
Is there a quote about identifying what makes a successful teacher?
Yes, one quote mentions doing "a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful," concluding that "The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement."
Where can I find more quotes about learning and self-discovery?
Browse our Life quotes, Me quotes, or More quotes for related themes.

For more on process and curiosity, see Life or More.