2. Research is creating new knowledge. -Neil Armstrong

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

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

5. The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. -Benjamin Disraeli

6. -Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as by reading.

7. “The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” -Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. vol. 2. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

8. “What we find changes who we become.” - Peter Morville http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

9. “The library is not... a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room... One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.” -Eric Burns, The Joy of Books

10. “ The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.” -Celia Green http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

11. “ Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.” -Marston Bates http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

12. “ I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.” -Shelby Foote http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

13. “ Research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2

14. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/research/#sthash.4BtDgaTb.dpbs

15. "In academic research, efforts wasted in the wrong direction are not wasted, as they contribute latently.” _Majeed, Muhammad Tariq http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/research/#sthash.4BtDgaTb.dpbs

16. “ The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.” -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/research?page=2