Research can be defined as the search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research (as opposed to basic 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. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so.
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Schools of this kind:
- National University of Singapore
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Indian Institute of Science
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
- Madras Institute of Technology
- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
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- By seeking and blundering we learn.
- If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
- Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.
- To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life.
- Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
- Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
- Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
- If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.