Curiosity & Inquiry Quotes

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

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

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.