Research Quotes

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

[These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

Do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks!

Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.