“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.” YearsChildrenStillsEndsSchoolWhiteWrittenPagesResearchPaintFrustrationFortyBangsSlapManiaMaladyForty Years Old Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.” IfsEndsWholeFactsLastsScienceStepsJourneyHard WorkIntellectualResearchCrossesWorkersVainAccomplishmentAccomplishedHopelessIndustrious Author:Max Planck
“Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.” EndsLostBehindsPaperResearchNotesLibraryCardsWanderPapersLoadedPublic LibraryWandering Around Book:The coast of Chicago Source: The coast of Chicago
“I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.” PeopleHumansEndsStatesHelpingMightWould BeCareHuman BeingsKnowingResearchResourcesMajorityCancerEnterpriseSuspectsNot KnowingCancer Research Author:Jacob M. Appel