Quotes About Curiosity

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Science is uncertain.

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.