Quotes About Curiosity

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.