I love this quote on research by Zora Neale Hurston. I ran across it in a school library over the weekend while I was judging my son’s speech tournament.
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
I have to confess I didn’t know who she was until I did a bit of quick research of my own. You can read more about her here and here.