Bruce Dickinson Quotes

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing.

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.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.

I was one of those kids that would take apart the remote control and take all the wheels off my little toy cars.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Schools should prepare people to build things, not just to think things.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

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

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

Children are just little scientists.

From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.