curiosity Quotes

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

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

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.

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

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.