What are the characteristic of a researcher?

Question

What are the characteristic of a researcher?

Answer 1

I believe researches have to be open minded to be willing to accept the different findings they may discover.  They need to be creative and curious to come up with ideas to research.  And they need to be determined to do the work in order to arrive at answers.

Answer 2

He must be a little paranoid, suspicious and thoughtful. Add to that patience and the ability to consider.

Answer 3

hypothesis and qusetions and comparing and vison. With a {S}word which transforms all words to nothingness.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researcher

Well, that saves me some typing :)  Thank you Wikipedia!