Louis Agassiz Quotes

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

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.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

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

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

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.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Science is always inquiring.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

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

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

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

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Science is about unravelling nature.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.