Basic research is when I’m doing what I don’t know I’m doing. Wernher von Braun
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it? Albert Einstein
When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. Wilson Mizner
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
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. Benjamin Jowett
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi