Holly Black Quotes

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

In order to find, you must first search.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

You dig in and you find something.

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

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

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

We don’t know whether what we found is a chip of ice or the tip of an iceberg.

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

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.