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Quotes about Research
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
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
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
Robert K. Merton
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Robert McKee
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Frank Herbert, Dune
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Will Harvey
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
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
Research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
Ben Bernanke
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
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill Gates
Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil Armstrong
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss Jami
With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
Lemony Snicket
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