Richard Ben-Veniste Quotes

I love doing research.

I like to explore things.

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

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

I really like research.

It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Investigation is never complete.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.

I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

It's very important to get out, to do reporting. It's also really interesting. I come at it as a journalist, and I think that's helped me, and I come at it as someone who sees nature wherever he looks, and that helps.

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The starting point is a question.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

I keep six honest serving men.

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. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

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

I was curious what would happen.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.