Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

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.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

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.

I love doing research.

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

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

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.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

What I do for a living is ask questions.

I really like research.

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

People dig exploration.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.