Jamie Hyneman Quotes

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

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

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.