Emma Donoghue Quotes

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

I am addicted to research, let's say.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I'm a sponge for information.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

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

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of understanding your environment, the world around you.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.