Quotes About Curiosity

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!