Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.