Quotes About Curiosity

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

We need to make science cool again.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.