Quotes About Curiosity

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."