Iris Chang Quotes

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

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

I really like research.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

You always need to be curious and study.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

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.

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

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.