David Baker Quotes

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

There is no better high than discovery.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. We can't all have a superhuman intellect like Albert Einstein's, but we can be super-curious. And we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.