Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Science probes; it does not prove.

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

I'm very interested in science.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

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

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

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

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.