Research Methodology Quotes

“where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom*
*Made it up
and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.”
― Terry Pratchett

“We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts.”
― Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

“... we can define concept as a logical, mental construction of one or more relationships. [...] It is purely mental, is logical, and can be described; it has been reasoned through sufficiently and presented with clarity. As such, a concept is inherently abstract (takes some things as given or assumed)”
― Don E. Ethridge, Research Methodology in Applied Economics

“There’s no discovery without a search and there’s no rediscovery without a research. Every discovery man ever made has always been concealed. It takes searchers and researchers to unveil them, that’s what make an insightful leader.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Research is a two-way process, search for
what you have gained and what you have to lose;
what you have lost and what you have to gain”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.”
― Priyavrat Thareja

“Nothing is right and wrong in research, research is an addiction with an endless search for its drug”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Studiando, noi diventiamo tutti filosofi; dovrete dunque avvezzarvi, ogni volta che un risultato vi sorprende, specialmente quando questo risultato vi par nuovo, dovrete avvezzarvi, dico, a chiedere a voi stessi o ad altri: «Quale è la causa di ciò? Perché le cose succedono a questo modo?» E presto o tardi finirete sempre col trovare la risposta.”
― Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle: Enriched edition. Unlocking the Mysteries of Chemical Reactions in a Candle's Flame

“IF YOU WANT TO BE MORE POSITIVE, THINK NEGATIVE.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A GOOD RESEARCHER IS THE ONE WHO REDUCES THE DISTANCE BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND REALITY.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The whole idea of: "Well, surely if you're going to make progress on this set of [science] puzzles, you will want to know everything everyone has done on the way there."

[But] by the time you learn everything everyone has done on the way there you will have spent a huge amount of time and made no progress. And even worse, you will be entrained. You will be entrained in the thought process that got them stuck in the first place.

And this all very counter-intuitive:
Do you want to know everything that is known before you try to add anything?
The answer is: You probably don't.
You'll ask better questions [if you don't.]
You'll ask some bad ones [too].
You'll ask some questions that other people have figured their way past, but you'll ask some good ones that nobody's asked yet and that's where the breakthroughs live.”
― Bret Weinstein

“Confabulation, or hallucination, is ubiquitous in AI/GPT output already. Efforts to correct this by self-learning algos and back propagation are unlikely to solve the problem because they add to the complexity of the system as a whole, which increases the likelihood of emergent ghosts. The difficulty is that duplicity is hard to detect unless you're a subject matter expert in the topic or you conduct your own research to test its accuracy. This begs the question — if you have to be a subject matter expert to spot the flaws in AI/GPT output, what good is the system in the first place?”
― James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy