612 Quotes About Research

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The books which you have read must be a part of you not all of you!

Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!

Theories without data are like daydreams.

Be a photocatalyst for change.

Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.

A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher is happily doomed, for the outcome is always uncertain, and the resolution of the mystery may take years to unfold. Such was the case in my encounter with the magic toads of the Americas.