I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
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Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
Science is about unravelling nature.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.
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.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.
Science is about filling in the details.