George Washington Carver Quotes

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.