Nell Scovell Quotes

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

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

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

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