Eric Betzig Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

Science is always inquiring.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

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

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

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

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.

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

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

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

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

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

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

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.

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

I'm very interested in science.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.