Debra Fischer Quotes

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

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.

Science is always inquiring.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Science is about filling in the details.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

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.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

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.

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.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.