Quotes About Curiosity

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.