Quotes About Curiosity

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.