David Sarnoff Quotes

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

There is no better high than discovery.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Write about what you want to know.

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

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

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

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Libraries raised me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.