Erin Wasson Quotes

Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

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.

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

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn't see anywhere else.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.