Quotes About Curiosity

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.