HIT: Research Quotes

[Corey Current <c.current@JUNO.COM>]

Enjoy the hits!

Corey Current, Media Specialist
S. St. Paul High School
S. St. Paul, MN
651-457-9439

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These are more about reading and books, but some might be appropriate.

http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/supportse/reslib/quotes.htm
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/search.html

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Research quotation:
Research is a lot like fishing: you choose a likely spot, put the
fishing pole in and hope you get a bite.  If not, you go upstream a
little bit and try again.  You need the right equipment and sometimes a
lot of patience.  James McGowan, English teacher, fisherman, coach
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Here are a couple:

"If we had a law that anybody who drilled a dry oil well wold be shot,
very few
wells would be drilled.  Our tolerance of dry wells does not seem to
extend to
research projects, which are always expected to gush."  Kenneth Boulding

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true
method."  Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 82.

The following are cut and pasted from my "Low Tech Research in a High
Tech
World," available on my Web site (see sig. block below).  It is an
antique now,
but still useful for principles, if not necessarily for current
techniques.
Pardon the spacing and line breaks, if they do not come across right.
This is
copy-and-paste stuff from here on.
Reading furnishes our mind only with knowledge; it is thinking makes what
we
read ours.
                                        --John Locke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
                                        --Edmund Burke

I rarely photocopy research materials because for me, note-taking is
learning,
distilling.  That's the whole essence of the business.  In taking notes,
you
have to discard what you don't need.  If you [photocopy] it, you haven't
chewed
it.
                                        --Barbara Tuchman

The most important thing to remember about the first draft is that you
must
write one.  And it will probably be lousy.  That is the nature of first
drafts.
. . . A lousy first draft is still a first draft.  It marks another
milestone.
Do not worry about making the first draft perfect, or even nearly
perfect.  The
purpose of revision is to perfect the job.
                                        --Ken Umbach

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I always liked "To Err is human ... To really mess things up requires a
computer."

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