If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?
Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Basic research is when I’m doing what I don’t know what I’m doing. Wernher von Braun, German-American aerospace engineer and a pioneer of rocket technology and space science in the U.S., 1912-1977)
