Pardis Sabeti Quotes

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.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

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.

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

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

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

Experimentation is an active science.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is about filling in the details.

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

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

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

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I just like to experiment.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

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.

All creation requires a scientific brain.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

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.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.