Theodore Kaczynski Quotes

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

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

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Kids are natural scientists.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.