REQ: Quotes On Research

[John]

I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.

Anyone know of a great quote on the topic?

Thanks!
- John
j...@primenet.com

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

In article <32b24a3e...@news.primenet.com>, John <j...@primenet.com> wrote:
>I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
>Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.
>
>Anyone know of a great quote on the topic?

"Study nature, not books."
--Louis Agassiz, posted on the wall in the library at the
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.

--
Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbs...@world.std.com

[David Wittman]

In article <32b24a3e...@news.primenet.com> j...@primenet.com

(John) writes:
>I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
>Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.

From a Unix fortune program:

Westheimer's discovery:
A couple of months in the lab will often save you a couple of
hours in the library.

--
David M. Wittman
dwit...@as.arizona.edu
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona

[John]

On 16 Dec 1996 19:08:15 GMT, dwit...@acme.as.arizona.edu (David
Wittman) wrote:

>In article <32b24a3e...@news.primenet.com> j...@primenet.com
>(John) writes:
>>I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
>>Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.
>
>From a Unix fortune program:
>
>
>Westheimer's discovery:
> A couple of months in the lab will often save you a couple of
>hours in the library.
>
>
>
>
>--
>David M. Wittman

I have seen this quote before and it is a great one - the only problem
is I do not know who Westheimer is!

Does anyone know who this person is and what their "discovery" was
from?

Thanks,,

- John
j...@primenet.com

[Eric Wharton]

John wrote:
>
> I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
> Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.
>

> Anyone know of a great quote on the topic?
>

> Thanks!
> - John
> j...@primenet.com

Here are a few that, while not directly about research, you might find
interesting:

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
what no one else has thought. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Art is I; science is we. -- Claude Bernard

Science is not so much an advance toward truth as it is a retreat from
ignorance. -- Wayne Thorpe

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas Edison

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on. -- Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research. -- Felson
(that one IS about research, but doesn't exactly support the value and
importance of research, cute though)

Eric

--
The two most common things in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity -- Albert Einstein

Hydrogen isn't all that common -- Harlan Ellsion

[FRANK]

On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:52:38 GMT, dpbs...@world.std.com (Daniel P. B.
Smith) wrote:

>In article <32b24a3e...@news.primenet.com>, John <j...@primenet.com> wrote:
>>I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
>>Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.
>>
>>Anyone know of a great quote on the topic?

Here are some reserach-related quotes from by Creative Quotations
collection. BTW, the components of the creative process and the
research process are closely related. You might also want to think
about illustrating research from that angle. Check my website or email
me for more information along that line.

Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance
to do some research and rehearse your ad libs. --Joey Adams

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
--Marston Bates

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. --Arthur Bloch

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a
'researcher'. --Martin Fischer

Much of the genius of the research worker lies behind his selection of
what is worth observing. It is a crucial choice, often differentiating
the brilliant discoverer from the plodder. --Alan Gregg

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a
purpose. --Zora Neale Hurston

The world is but a school of research. The question is not who shall
hit the ring, but who shall run the best course. --Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. --Cynthia Nelms

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.
--Wernher Von Braun

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest
astonishment. --Celia Green

Research shows that people who were left by themselves to think . . .
came up with three times as many ideas as those who brainstormed in
groups. -- Unknown

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions
grow where only one grew before. --Thorstein Veblen

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is
to get an idea. --William Bernbach

When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism; if you take it
from many writers, it's research. --Wilson Mizner

Formula for breakthroughs in research: Take young researchers, put
them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree
of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
--James D. Watson

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. --H. G. Wells
The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek
in his experiment as well as what he sought. --Claude Bernard

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a
pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
--Konrad Lorenz

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of
the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. --Peter
Medawar

Cheers, FRANK

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[JR3000]

In article <32b24a3e...@news.primenet.com>, John j...@primenet.com>
wrote:
>I am trying to find some good quotes on the value and importance of
>Research. I have checked some of the web pages to limited success.
>
>Anyone know of a great quote on the topic?

God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.
-The Bible, _Ecclesiastes_ ,7, 29

Now what I want is Facts.
Facts alone are wanted in life.
-Charles Dickens, _Hard Times_ (1854)

And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule--
that whatever the mind seizes and dwells upon with particular
satisfaction is to be held in suspicion,
and that so much the more care is to be taken
in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding
even and clear.
-Francis Bacon,_Novum Organum_, Aphorism 58

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?
The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
-T S Eliot, _The Wasteland_

--
Mr. Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put put of
existence...
Mr, Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in
often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping
them behind him.
-Charles Dickens,_Our Mutual Friend_ Ch. 11 (1865)

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