Richard Hamming Quotes

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

Experimentation is an active science.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

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.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.