William Hazlitt Quotes

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

I love to know why things work.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I think like a detective.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

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

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

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

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

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Kids are natural scientists.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

I've always been fascinated by real scientists - Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others - how they've come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

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

When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was sheer accident, and then I began to wonder.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.