Isaac Newton Quotes

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea‑shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

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

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

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

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.