Donald Lamb Quotes

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

We especially need imagination in science.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Unprecedented opportunities for new scientific experience ...

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

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.

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.