Isaac Asimov Quotes

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

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

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

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

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.

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.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.