Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

I do not seek. I find.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

I've always liked discovering things.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.