Jim Morrison Quotes

I was curious what would happen.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Science is always inquiring.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

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

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

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 am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

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

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.