Michael Crichton Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

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.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

To know truly is to know by causes.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.