Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

Doubt is the father of invention.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

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.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

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.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.