Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

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

I'm very interested in science.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Science is about filling in the details.

One can not impede scientific progress.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Research is creating new knowledge.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Physicists have as their calling the answering of questions once thought to be unknowable.

Physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.

I really like research.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

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

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.