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By seeking and blundering we learn. (Smith Barbara)
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. (Smith Barbara)
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. (Smith Barbara)
Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. (Smith Barbara)
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. (Smith Barbara)
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. (Smith Barbara)
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. (Smith Barbara)
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. (Smith Barbara)
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. (Smith Barbara)
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life. (Smith Barbara)
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought. (Smith Barbara)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. (Smith Barbara)
Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. (Smith Barbara)
She did some research and found me a specialist. (Smith Barbara)
I do a lot of research. (Smith Barbara)
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. (Smith Barbara)
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