Quotes About Curiosity

Science probes; it does not prove.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.