612 Quotes About Research

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

When I started to research what had made me sick, I had no idea that it would turn me into an expert on inconvenient truths.

Good" now is better than "Best" never.

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

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

Communism looked good on paper, you know' — but how many people who say that even know what communism looks like on paper?

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

There’s a reason why researchers and organizations like Pew Research are doing the work that they do — they do so to make sure that we don’t forget about the populations that aren’t already in our networks [danah boyd, "An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].