Walter Isaacson Quotes

I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.

I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, 'But why?'

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

Mary Roach's curiosity is notoriously infectious.

I am naturally a very curious person.

I'm a naturally curious person.

My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!

The creative mind is restless.

I have a curious mind.

I think I'm just a naturally curious person.

Everything always interests me.

I'm probably, like, the nosiest person you'll ever meet. Not in a rude way, but I like to be in the know.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

I think it's something you're born with - the desire to know how things work inside.

I think I was always a curious kid.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.