Quotes About Curiosity

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.