Quotes About Curiosity

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.