Margaret Geller Quotes

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

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.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Science is what scientists do.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.