The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Interpretation
Being a great scientist requires openness to new experiences and a sense of wonder about possibilities.
Ray Bradbury suggests that the best scientists possess a unique approach to their work, characterized by an openness to experience and a romantic view of the world. This perspective allows them to see beyond conventional limitations, embracing creativity and curiosity as essential elements in scientific discovery, which ultimately fuels further innovation and exploration.
In practice
During a science fair presentation, a student might quote Bradbury to emphasize the importance of creativity in scientific research.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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