Gayle Lynds Quotes

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.

Write about what you want to know.

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.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

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

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries raised me.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

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

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

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

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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