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As one of my professors quoted in 1996, in a moment of truth around midnight, we re-search the same truth in its myriad of manifestations. Hence the importance of re-search, which is as fundamental and philosophical in nature, as life itself.
Research can be in any of the areas: be it philosophy or literature or sciences. What's talked about here is scientific and technical research. In particular, my passion lies with technical research.
Therefore, it is important to delineate between these two forms of research in complementary areas. It is here that this classical piece of insight came handy to me. Towards scientific research, in words of Henri Poincaré,
The Scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances. Not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science. I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.