Seth Godin Quotes

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

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

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

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.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.