Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

Science is about questioning things.

Science is always inquiring.

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

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.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Science is facts.

Science is about unravelling nature.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

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

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Science is about filling in the details.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.