Stefan Hell Quotes

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Everything is an experiment.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

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.

Children are just little scientists.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.