Lucy Hawking Quotes

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

I have a curious mind.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

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

I'm motivated by curiosity.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

I think I was always a curious kid.

I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.

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.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.