Research Objectives Quotes

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.