Sunday, December 16, 2012

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire



The quote by Voltaire is an interesting one to remember by researchers. Once you decided to solve a research question and started literature review you need not abandon the problem totally at any time. The solution may take time and you may need to take breaks and divert your attention to some other activities, but if you are at it you are likely to solve it. Well sometimes you may not solve it, but if you still did some thinking and explored some ways to solve the problem and failed, you can leave your trail to somebody else. You may not be able to publish a paper on it. But you can still pass on your manuscripts. In this digital age, you can still self publish your research endeavour and leave the trail on online space.


Remember "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."


Add the quote of Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Research Methods in Physical and Natural Sciences








Research Methods in Science - Introduction
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=148

Description - Describing what is happening in planetary movements.
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=151

Modeling - Developing a model of the phenomena being studied
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=153

Experimenting - Changing the inputs of an experiment or giving a treatment to a sample of subjects
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=150

Comparison - Examples: Comparing the health of smokers with the health of non-smokers
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=152









Process of Science

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/cat_view.php?cid=49