Thoughts on the Research Process

Research is creating new knowledge.

-Neil Armstrong

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

-Zora Neale Hurston

Research is what I'm doing

when I don't know what I'm doing.

-Wernher von Braun

The best way to become acquainted with a subject

is to write a book about it.

-Benjamin Disraeli

-Lord Acton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

“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, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. vol. 2.

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“What we find

changes who we become.”

-Peter Morville

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“The library is not . . . a place for the retiring of

disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or

a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the

afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center,

a power base. A board room, a war room...

One does not retreat from the world here;

one prepares to join it at an advantage.”

-Eric Burns, The Joy of Books

“The way to do research

is to attack the facts

at the point of greatest astonishment.”

-Celia Green

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“Research is the process of

going up alleys

to see if they are blind.”

-Marston Bates

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“I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered

while I was looking for

something else.”

-Shelby Foote

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“Research consists in seeing

what everyone else has seen,

but thinking

what no one else has thought.”

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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“By seeking and blundering

we learn.”

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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"In academic research, efforts wasted in the wrong direction

are not wasted, as they contribute latently.”

_Majeed, Muhammad Tariq

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“The explorer who will not come back

or send back his ships to tell his tale

is not an explorer,

only an adventurer;

and his sons are born in exile.”

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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