Quotes About Curiosity

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

By inspiring children to pursue interests in STEM early on, we are instilling in them the curiosity needed to show them that these fields are as equally accessible to them as anyone else.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Stephen King's 'It' is my favorite book of all time. I was that kid that would come to the library and be like: 'There's more Stephen King? Great.'

I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. —LINUS PAULING

Why do we ask the important questions after they've been answered?