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Experimentation is an active science.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

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

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

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

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science is always inquiring.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

Science is about filling in the details.

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.

Somebody has to try it.

If one does not search for things, how will he ever find anything?

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.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.