Quotes About Curiosity

I didn't think; I experimented.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.