Research

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RESEARCH: The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. (Ronald Ross, British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on the transmission of malaria via the mosquito, 1857-1932)

RESEARCH: If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

RESEARCH: What is research, but a blind date with knowledge? (Will Henry, U.S. author and screenwriter, 1912-1991)

RESEARCH: Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine, 1893-1986)

RESEARCH: Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer. (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007)

RESEARCH: Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Marston Bates, U.S. zoologist who contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in South America, 1906-1974)

RESEARCH: The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. (Humphrey Davy, Cornish chemist and inventor, 1778-1829)

RESEARCH: 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) ()