Jack Finney Quotes

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.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

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

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.