Quotes About Curiosity

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.