Samuel Johnson Quotes

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

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

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.