Tim Harford Quotes

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

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

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.