612 Quotes About Research


  • Author Florence Bascom
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    The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind.

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  • Author Laurell K. Hamilton
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    Ms. Hamilton is talking to a policeman: Asking about ghouls in a cemetery raiding graves, I said ‘I know that in real life that doesn’t happen,’ and he got the strangest look on his face. And he said, ‘People have teeth too.’ He had been called to cemeteries where people had raided graves and done pretty much what I was writing about, except not as thoroughly. That was the moment I realized that anything I’ll ever come up with on paper has already been done.-- interview in Locus magazine, 2000

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  • Author H.G. Wells
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    This is the only way I ever heard of research going. I asked a question, devised some method of getting an answer, and got - a fresh question.

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