Naomi Alderman Quotes

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Write about what you want to know.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

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.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

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

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

I just like to experiment.

Science is about questioning things.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.