Timothy Zahn Quotes

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

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.

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

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

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.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

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.

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

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Science is always inquiring.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

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

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.

Experimentation is an active science.

I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

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