The Craft of Research Quotes

“intellectual understanding is one of the best versions of the Golden Rule: Listen to others as you would have others listen to you. Precise demonstration of truth is important but not as important as the communal pursuit of it. Put in terms of Kant's categorical imperative, When addressing someone else's ideas, your obligation is to treat them as you believe all human beings ought to treat one another's ideas."
WAYNE C. BOOTH,”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers’ lives by changing what and how they think.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“… no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“every time you go to a written source for information, you join a conversation between writers and readers that began more than five thousand years ago. And when you report your own research, you add your voice and can hope that other voices will respond to you, so that you can in turn respond to them.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“If you believe in what you’re doing and cannot find anyone else who shares your beliefs, all you can do is put your head down and press on.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“when you write for others, you demand more of yourself than when you write for yourself alone.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“In true research, you must switch the roles of student and teacher. When you do research, you learn something that others don’t know. So when you report it, you must think of your reader as someone who doesn’t know it but needs to and yourself as someone who will give her reason to want to know it.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research

“Es por eso que cuando aprendes a investigar aprendes también a valorar la investigación confiable y transmitida en forma clara y exacta.”
― Wayne C. Booth, El Arte de la Investigación

“When we understand not just the superficial shape of those elements but how they help us think about our research and its reporting, we are better able to plan, evaluate, and, most important, use the process not just to produce a good report but to think better about our entire project. The elements of a report-its structure, style, and methods of proof-are not empty formulas for convincing readers to accept our claims: they help us test our work and even discover new lines of thought.”
― Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research