Sarah Parcak Quotes

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is always inquiring.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

Science is about filling in the details.

Science is about questioning things.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is not gadgetry.

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

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.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.