Craig Johnston Quotes

I was one of those kids that would take apart the remote control and take all the wheels off my little toy cars.

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

I've always, since I was a kid, been interested in how things work.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

I loved to take things apart and put them back together. I loved the way things work.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

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.

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

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.