Elizabeth Reaser Quotes

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

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

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

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.

You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.

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

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

You always need to be curious and study.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Children are just little scientists.