Claire Saffitz Quotes

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

Always ask questions.

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

Details - that's what it comes down to, so you're always learning more about a play or a concept.

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

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

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

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

We’re not the nation’s jailers. We are not out there to punish. We are out there to learn.

I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.