Gaston Bachelard Quotes

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 key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

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.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

The starting point is a question.

I keep six honest serving men.

I'm very interested in science.

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.

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

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

There are always things that you want to know more about.

I always want to know about things.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

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

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

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.