1. research - Noun
2. research - Verb
Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBasic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. Wernher von Braun
Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Györgyi
When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism if you take it from many writers, it's research. Wilson Mizner
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz