George Wald Quotes

We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

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.

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

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.