612 Quotes About Research

La opinión tan generalizada de que los científicos proceden siempre de un hecho bien demostrado a otro hecho bien demostrado, y nunca se dejan influir por una conjetura no probada, es bastante errónea. A condición de que quede bien claro qué son hechos probados y qué son conjeturas, no existe ningún peligro. Las conjeturas son de suma importancia, porque sugieren posibles vías de investigación.

Anyone could be seduced by research when the results poured in. The trick was to love it when the results weren't forthcoming, and the reasons why were elusive.

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the ‘social sciences’ is: some do, some don’t.

...he imagined another life for himself as one of these silent scholars, buried in his research like a guinea pig in its wood shavings, nibbling away steadily after some arcane piece of knowledge in the hope of making an addition, however imperceptible, to the collective pile.

فهم واستيعاب جوانب البحث العلمي ينعكس على الحياة العامة بشكل تلقائي، فتجد الباحث دقيقاً في مفردات حديثه> يختارها بعناية. يبتعد قدر المستطاع عن التحيز، يبحث عن الحقائق، ويصبح أكثر قدرةً على الاستدلال والاستنتاج.

The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.

Younger wizards in particular went about saying that is was time magic started to update its image and that they should all stop mucking about with bits of wax and bone and put the whole thing on a properly-organised basis, with research programmes and three-day conventions in good hotels where they could read papers with titles like 'Whither Geomancy?' and 'The role of Seven League Boots in a caring society

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge