research, n.All

Research is warm, involved, and risky in contrast to science which is cold, detached, and certain.

Research is generally successful in proportion to its chaoticness. The more highly organized, the more it is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Research is that which, like life, has the strange tendency to leap over what is simple, originary, and genuine and to get hung up on what is complicated, derivative, and non-genuine.

Research is formalized curiosity, poking and prying with a purpose.

Research is the activity of attacking the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Research is inherently chaotic. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research.

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.