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Research is a systematic investigation to discover new information or reach a new understanding

• Research: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. Oxford Dictionary
• Research: A detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover new information or reach a new understanding. Cambridge Dictionary
• Knowledge,  Observation,  Wisdom,  Learning,  Exploration,  Understanding,  Truth

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Research can bring great rewards

• Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. Arthur D. Little
• What we find changes who we become. Peter Morville
• Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and its cousin, depression. Robert McKee
• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain. Eugenie Clark

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Research often starts with conscious ignorance

• 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?
• Ignorance

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Great research is inspired by curiosity and wonder

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston
• The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. Celia Green
• Curiosity,  Wonder

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Great research is an exploration and an investigation

• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates
• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.  Neil Armstrong
• Exploration

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Great research is about discovery

• The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Seneca
• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. J. R. R. Tolkien
• Discovery

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Great research opens up new knowledge

• An investment in knowledge pays the best return. Benjamin Franklin
• What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. William Henry
• Research is creating new knowledge. Neil Armstrong
• Knowledge

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Great research produces actionable knowledge

• Data becomes information when it’s organized; information becomes knowledge when it is placed in actionable context. Without context, there is little value. Kent Greenes
• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran
• Action

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Great research aids understanding

• Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. M I Finley
• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg
• Understanding

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Great research is very careful in its selection of what is worth observing

• Most of the knowledge and much of the genius of the research worker lie behind his selection of what is worth observing. It is a crucial choice, often determining the success or failure of months of work, often differentiating the brilliant discoverer from the… plodder. Alan Gregg

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Great research is careful in selecting its information sources

• Google’ is not a synonym for ‘research’. Dan Brown
• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. Roger Ebert

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Great research stimulates thought and more research

• The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. Paul A.M. Dirac
• The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen
• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great research reveals truths

• After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Helene Deutsch
• Truth

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Great research connects ideas across fields

• A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it. Sir James Fitzjames
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Great research is systematic but flexible

• Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. Frank Herbert, Dune
• The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. Hans Selye
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Great research shakes things up

• Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Will Durant
• Leave no stone unturned. Euripides
• Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. Albert Szent- Gyorgyi

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Great research steals ideas from many

• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. Carl Sagan
• Ideas

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Great research is never fully satisfied

• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. Charles F. Kettering

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Great research shares its findings with others

• The market research department is increasingly perceived as being not just responsible for the organization of research, but also for sharing and distributing knowledge and expertise in a credible and convincing way. Christoph Palmer
• Collaboration,  Teamwork,  Cooperation

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Great writing usually starts with research

• The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson
• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it –three minutes; to collect the data in it –all my life.
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Not everyone is in favour of research

• Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. William Wordsworth

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Research can stifle action

• Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. Benjamin Jowett
• Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. Brian Moore
• After many hours of colour theory, colour wheels, mixing, and value studies, I began to realize that maybe it was best just to let it all go, and paint. Lorna Dockstader
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Research can be self-serving

• When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. Pearl S. Buck
• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. Arthur Bloch

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Research can cause myopia

• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. Nicholas Murray Butler

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Research often tends to focus on the past

• The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It’s like driving a car using a rear-view mirror. Bernard Loomis
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Play can be a form of research

• Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein

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Not all research needs to involve the mind

• In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• My idea of research is to take a walk in the bush and watch the birds fly past, and I am exhilarated by every meteoric movement. Lars Knudsen

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• I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. Raymond Chandler
• The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. Michael Caine
• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
• 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
• Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
• Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.  NASA Truism
• Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. Sandra Boynton
• Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you’ll feel so good, you’ll be able to start looking for a new job. Jay Leno
• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.

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