| "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine |
| "research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." »Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun |
| "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun |
| "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it" »Albert Einstein |
| "research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." »Marston Bates |
| "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research." »Wilson Mizner |
| "The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before." »Thorstein Veblen |
| "The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want" »Sigmund Freud |
| "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." »Bill Vaughan |
| "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 |
| "It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive." »Albert Einstein |
| "The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research" »Theodore Roszak |
| "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." »Anonymous |
| "The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins |
| "Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie |
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