Jonathan Miller Quotes

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Everything is interesting to me.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Everything interests me.

I'm motivated by curiosity.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

Everything always interests me.

Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

I usually have to find something where I go, "I have to do this." Sometimes you don't even know what the question you're trying to answer is, but you go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with."

Whatever interests is interesting.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.