Tobin Bell Quotes

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

We learn only to ask more questions.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

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

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

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

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Every clarification breeds new questions.