If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research

Albert Einstein
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I read on the Internet that Albert Einstein said :  "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research" but I usually remain skeptical when I'm told that Einstein said something, because whenever someone wants to make some brainless weak-minded phrase sound profound, he just attributes it to Einstein so that in the worst case it would be considered funny.

But I agree that whoever said the above quote has got a sens of humor. Maybe it was just a lazy researcher trying to guarantee himself a lifetime of employment by justifying the budget spent on him watching youtube and drinking coffee. And as they say: "As long as my boss pretends that I make a lot of money, I pretend to work hard".