Matt Ridley Quotes

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Science is always inquiring.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.