curiosity Quotes

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.