66 Research Quotes to Keep You Motivated in Doing Your Project

Quotes about Research

We've listed some of the most interesting research quotes in this article. We hope these research quotes will leave you feeling motivated to start or complete your best research project.

• “Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”- Albert Szent-Györgyi 

• “No research without action, no action without research”- Kurt Lewin

• "We need to celebrate and reward people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity, and work to improve people's lives."- Mark Zuckerberg

• "Research is creating new knowledge."- Neil Armstrong

• "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."- Zora Neale Hurston

• “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

• “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” – Wernher von Braun

• “It is a good thing for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.“- Konrad Lorenz

• "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."- Wernher von Braun

• "I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts."- Bill Gates

• “The best research you can do is talk to people”- Terry Pratchett

• “Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out”- Charles F. Kettering

• “Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.”- Raewyn Connell

• “In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” – Neil Armstrong

• "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."- Zora Neale Hurston

• "Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."-Frederick Sanger

• "What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidotes to ego, hubris, and delusion.'- Ryan Holidays

• “Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – A. Branson Alcott

• "The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research."- Paul Dirac

• "Research has formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."- Zora Neale Hurston

• "Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out."- Charles F. Kettering

• "It is a good thing for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast."- Konrad Lorenz

• "Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."- Frank Herbert

• "If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation."- Bill Foster

• "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"- Albert Einstein.

• "The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism."- Lord Kelvin

• "Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."- Frederick Sanger

• "I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."- John B. S. Haldane

• "We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit."- Noreena Hertz

• "When research walks on the field, the judgment does not walk off."- Dick Kampe

Those are some inspirational research quotes from researchers. More quotes about research are listed on the next page. Keep reading!

Research Quotes Einstein

Most of us are already known who Albert Einstein is. He is the most famous influential scientist who developed the theory of relativity. The name of Einstein has often correlated with genius and creativity. Here are some research quotes from Albert Einstein to motivate you on your project.

• "I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."— Albert Einstein

• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."-Albert Einstein

• "It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."

• — Albert Einstein

• "I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."— Albert Einstein

• "Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and survey things in terms of cause and effect. Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order."— Albert Einstein

• “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”— Albert Einstein

• “It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.”— Albert Einstein

• “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”— Albert Einstein

• “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”— Albert Einstein

• “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”— Albert Einstein

• “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”— Albert Einstein

• “The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”— Albert Einstein

Famous Research Quotes

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If you need more research quotes to inspire you when doing your research, these lists below are the best. We're sure you will be more motivated when reading them. 

• “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” —Carl Sagan

• “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” —Galileo Galilei

• “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” —Max Planck

• “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” —Arthur C. Clarke

• “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” —Stephen Hawking

• “Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith’” —Max Planck

• “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” —Immanuel Kant

• “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

• “Science is nothing but perception.” —Plato

• “There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.” —Isaac Asimov

• “Science does not know its debt to imagination.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people."-Paul Gibbons

• "Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better."-Laurel Clark

Scientific Research Quotes

Conducting scientific research is a challenging and long process. It requires consistency and hard work. Whether you just want to start your research or are already ongoing, you must plan each step meticulously. Here are other lists of top and motivational research quotes for you.

• "Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."- Daniel Nathans

• "Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target." - Homer Burton Adkins

• "The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research." - John Sulston

• "Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand."- Richard Louv

• "It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already." - Umberto Eco

• "I got involved in science research and the science of meditation."- Matthieu Ricard

• "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic." - Thomas Henry Huxley

• " It is said that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark."- Michael Shermer

• " Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world."- Julie Bishop

• "I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book."- Bill Bryson

• "So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession."- Simon Winchester