Quotes About Curiosity

Nuestro saber es demasiado débil para no aceptar vivir en el misterio. Y precisamente porque el misterio existe, y porque es tan profundo, no podemos confiar en quien declara poseer la llave de este misterio. Aceptar la incertidumbre y la novedad de un pensamiento que busca nuevos caminos conlleva nuevos riesgos.

It is thus that serious scientists are made.

To accept uncertainty doesn't detract from our sense of mystery.

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

Science, I believe, is a passionate search for always newer ways to conceive the world. Its strength lies not in the certainties it reaches but in a radical awareness of the vastness of our ignorance.

Infinite', ultimately, is the name that we give to what we do not yet know. Nature appears to be telling us that there is nothing truly infinite.

Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking.

One hundred thousand years ago our species left Africa, compelled perhaps by precisely this curiosity, learning to look ever farther afield. Flying over Africa by night, I wondered if one of these distant ancestors setting out toward the wide-open spaces of the North could have looked up into the sky and imagined a distant descendant flying up there, pondering on the nature of things, and still driven by his very same curiosity.

In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

Albert Einstein gençli?inde bir y?l?n? aylakl?k ederek geçirdi. Bo?a zaman geçirmeden bir yere var?lmaz ama anne babalar? ne yaz?k ki bunu genellikle unutur. .. Albert, Kant okuyor, bo? zamanlar?nda Pavia Üniversitesi'nde derslere giriyordu; ne kay?t olmu?tu ne de s?navlara giriyordu, bunu zevk için yap?yordu. Gerçek biliminsan? ancak böyle olunur.

We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they've evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another. So the concepts in our head are designed to deal with animals, trees, rivers and people. There's no reason why they should be able to deal with atoms or galaxies. But I believe we're flexible and our minds are curious, so we can change our thinking.

It was not the applications that motivated them but the natural desire to know.

The nature of time is perhaps the greatest remaining mystery. Curious threads connect it to those other great open mysteries: the nature of mind, the origin of the universe, the fate of black holes, the very functioning of life on Earth. Something essential continues to draw us back to the nature of time.

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving.

Albert [Einstein] was reading Kant and attending occasional lectures at the University of Pavia: for pleasure, without being registered there or having to think about exams. It is thus that serious scientists are made.

Science begins with a vision.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so.

The only truly infinite thing is our ignorance.

In the big picture of contemporary science, there are many things that we do not understand, and one of the things that we understand least about is ourselves.

To the very last, the desire to debate, to understand more. To the very last, doubt. This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy—or in our physics.