George Wald Quotes

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

Science is always inquiring.

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.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

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

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

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

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

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.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

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.

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

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

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

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

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.

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

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.

Science is about questioning things.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Science demands patience.