Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

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

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.

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

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

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.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

Writing is investigation.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

Investigation is never complete.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

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.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Science is always inquiring.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.