Otto Wallach Quotes

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Never bet against science!

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.