Research Purpose Quotes

My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.

I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps difficult, problem children, for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.