Virginia Postrel Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science is always inquiring.

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.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

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.

Science is about questioning things.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

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

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

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

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

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

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.