Pliny the Elder Quotes

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

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Science is magic that works.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?