Research

Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method. The primary purpose for basic research (as opposed to applied research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe.

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• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  • Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. 161–180 CE), Chapter II.

• Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
  Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
  • Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), Seeke and Finde.

• Hail, follow, well met,
  All dirty and wet:
  Find out, if you can,
  Who's master, who's man.
  • Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 400.