Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
—Unknown
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it—three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life.
—Unknown
By seeking and blundering we learn.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
It has recently been discovering that research causes cancer in rats.
—Anonymous
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
—Peter Medawar (1915–87) British Zoologist, Immunologist
Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet
Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
—Wernher von Braun (1912–77) German-born American Engineer, Scientist
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
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