Quotes About Curiosity

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

How do I work? I grope.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

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

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.