John Vane Quotes

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

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.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

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

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

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

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

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

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.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.