Quotes About Curiosity

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Science is the true theology.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

I don't believe in mathematics.

Knowledge is the death of research.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.