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Spirit of
research
Somewhere, something incredibleis waitingto be known.
- Carl Sagan
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library
filled with books in many different languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It
does not understand the languages in which they are they are they
are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the
arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is.
- Albert Einstein
If we knew what we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
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To do successful research,you don't need to
know everything,
you just need
to know of
one thing
that isn't
known.
- Arthur Schawlow
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I didn't think;
I experimented.
- Wilhelm Roentgen
(German physicist, 1845-1923)
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If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out
how the world works, that it is good to find out what the realities
are, that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest
possible power to control the world... It is not possible to be a
scientist unless you believe that the knowledge of the world, and
the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value
to humanity, and that you are using it to help in the spread of
knowledge, and are willing to take the consequences.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
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Image soruce: A-bomb unknown
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast - It keeps him [sic] young.- Konrad Lorenz
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What is research?
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