Klaus von Klitzing Quotes

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

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.

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.

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

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

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

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

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Science is about unravelling nature.

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

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

Science is always inquiring.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

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

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.