Michael Bloomberg Quotes

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

Who does science determines what science gets done.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

Experimentation is an active science.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

It's not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don't like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.

I am very pro-science.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.