Eric Betzig Quotes

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

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

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

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.

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

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.

We especially need imagination in science.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.