Marston Bates Quotes

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

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.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

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

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

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

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

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Science is always inquiring.

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.

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

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.

Science is about questioning things.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

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.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

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