Researching a topic can be a daunting task, but with the right tools and motivation, it can also be a fulfilling and enlightening experience. One way to stay inspired during the research process is to turn to the words of wise individuals who have paved the way for knowledge seekers. Quotes about research can offer guidance, encouragement, and perspective on the importance and value of seeking truth and understanding. Whether you’re exploring a new subject, writing a thesis, or just curious about the world, these quotes can help keep you motivated and focused on your goal.
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Inspiring Quotes to Research a Topic
1. “I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.” ― Philip Larkin
2. “Always try to connect your decision-making to some sort of data. If you don’t have data, start a market research project and gain data on that topic. Don’t make any decisions just on the basis of your “intuition.” ― Pooja Agnihotri
3. “Be proactive in talking with professors to find research topics that are mutually interesting, and no matter what, don’t just hole up in isolation.” ― Philip J. Guo
4. “Often I am researching topics and writing into the long hours of the night. I have an overactive mind and I have to do something with it.” ― Wade The Wordsmith
5. “A topic you’re passionate about is more likely to interest your audience and to keep you engaged as you research and write.” ― Andrea Lunsford
6. “If you’re pursuing a project for mostly instrumental reasons, it’s often a good idea to do an additional step of research: determining whether learning the skill or topic in question will actually help you achieve your goal.” ― Scott H. Young
7. “Sources do not speak for themselves, graciously yielding up facts to the patient researcher, who approaches the evidence with his or her mind a tabula rasa cleared of personal views and preferences. Historians select material from archives and libraries with their minds freighted with preconceptions of various kinds, including hypotheses they wish to test, questions they want to answer, ideas about topics and issues they want to explore and understand.” ― Paul Readman
8. “Focus can be difficult, especially for entrepreneurs. People keep options open even when it is not in their best interest, according to former MIT professor Dan Ariely, who discusses the topic in his 2008 book, Predictably Irrational. According to his research, when people are given what appear to be multiple paths to success, they will try to retain all the paths as options, even though selecting one specific path would have guaranteed them the most success.” ― Bill Aulet
9. “For some pursuit of knowledge is enough of a motivator, but the issue of funding is a barrier. The scientific community is frequently compromised because of funding sources. The absence of research on a topic that concerns you as an underrepresented person doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist. It could simply mean that the motivation or the economic incentive for doing the research doesn’t exist. Western culture and by extension all nations affected by colonialism is money driven, if there isn’t a monetary reason to do something you will be hard-pressed to get it done.” ― Dalia Kinsey
10. “Intensive research is like drinking salt water. No matter how much you learn about a person, topic or event, you are left with an unquenchable thirst to find out more. The only solution is to keep researching and learning. Slaking your thirst is not the objective, because you can never learn enough and you will never know everything.” ― Karl Pippart III
11. “In choosing topics for research and departments to enlist in, a young scientist must beware of following fashion. It is one thing to fall into step with a great concerted movement of thought such as molecular genetics or cellular immunology, but quite another merely to fall in with prevailing fashion for, say, some new histochemical procedure or technical gimmick.” ― Peter Medawar
12. “Looking for a particular angle on a topic can help you to narrow your focus, but don’t worry if the topic you come up with right now isn’t very specific: as you do research, you’ll be able to narrow and refine it.” ― Andrea Lunsford
13. “These great institutions pursued research topics not because they were likely to contribute to the parent company’s bottom line anytime soon but because the corporation believed that research for research’s sake was something a real company did.” ― Anonymous
14. “This book confronts psychopathy head-on and presents the disturbing topic for what it is—a dark mystery with staggering implications for society; a mystery that finally is beginning to reveal itself after centuries of speculation and decades of empirical psychological research.” ― Robert D. Hare
15. “On the topic of goals, the academic research agrees with your intuition: Having goals improves performance.” ― Laszlo Bock
16. “You should conduct research- to study the issue or field you are interested in; explore the topic in every quarter and search for information in all kinds of sources” ― Sunday Adelaja
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