Jowett on Research

 I found this anecdote regarding Benjamin Jowett to be amusing and perplexing. 

As is well known, the modern emphasis on research was unwelcome to Jowett. "Research!" the Master exclaimed. "Research!" he said. "A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value." 

This is from p. 18 of James Barr, “Jowett and the Reading of the Bible ‘Like Any Other Book’” Horizons in Biblical Theology 4 (1982): 1–44. Barr cites as his source this account.