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What is research?

Physics and Society 2008-12-01 v3

Abstract

Doing research is fighting, what any other thing the human being could do? Fight against powers or to get powers, that depends on us. Science can be a revolution or deadlocked idleness. Still waters, without hitting the stones along their history, trend to form bogs.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0201012,
  title  = {What is research?},
  author = {Martin Lopez-Corredoira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0201012},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

This article was published in a collection of critical reviews by scientists of how physics and astronomy get done: "Against the Tide", published by Universal Publishers. It is freely available at: http://www.archivefreedom.org/tide.htm