Gerhard Herzberg Quotes

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

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

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

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

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science is about filling in the details.

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

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

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

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

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.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.