Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
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The Visitor (2002)
“And therefore when we go to investigate we shouldn’t pre-decide what it is we are trying to do except to find out more about it”
Source: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 251-252, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=45m21s<br>(Also in book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999) p. 23.) <br class="br">Context: People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world and if it turns out there is a simple ultimate law which explains everything, so be it; that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers and we're just sick and tired of looking at the layers, then that's the way it is!… And therefore when we go to investigate we shouldn’t pre-decide what it is we are trying to do except to find out more about it… My interest in science is to simply find out more about the world.
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