Matt Nagy Quotes

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

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

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

Write about what you want to know.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

There are always things that you want to know more about.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

History will show you not all the answers, but it’ll tell you a lot of the questions to ask.

I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

It's funny: now we're starting to do interviews, we've just begun to understand what we're doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives.