Charles Petzold Quotes

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Kids are natural scientists.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

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

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.