Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong.

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

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

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual
flight from wonder.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual
flight from wonder.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library
filled with books in many different read more

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. That, it
seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being
toward God.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?