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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Research

Author

Jonathan Swift

Source

Gulliver's Travels

Genre

Satire Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 3, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 3, ch. 5.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

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Speaker

Wernher von Braun

Source

A Random Walk in Science

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Von Braun, Werner. Quoted in A Random Walk in Science, edited by Eric Mendoza. Institute of Physics Publishing, 1973. Originally stated during an interview with The New York Times, 16 Dec. 1957.

In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete.

Mark Pattison

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Author

Mark Pattison

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English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, ch. 10.