Alfred Einstein Quotes

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.

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.

Science is about filling in the details.

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

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

Writing is investigation.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

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.

To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.