Robert Martin Quotes

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.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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.

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

You learn a lot from kids.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

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

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

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

All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.

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.

It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.