Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge;' the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning., 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.

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

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.

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

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.

You need to do research, to approach the study of the issue from all sides

If we knew all the answers, there will be no research.

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.

Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.

Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin.

If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.

Dare to research on the originality of any information.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.