Terence Tao Quotes

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Science is always inquiring.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Write about what you want to know.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is about filling in the details.