Linus Pauling Quotes

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Of the present state we may justly say, that no nation under heaven ever struck out in so short a time, and with so much spirit and reputation, into the labyrinth of art and science; and that, not in the acquisition of knowledge only, but in the happy advantages flowing from it. The world does not at this day exhibit a parallel, neither can history produce its equal.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

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

Young people must sieze the fortress of science if they want to truly replace the old guard.

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingrich was the kind of person who read a book or two on something and would then be quite afire as to how this was going to fit into some shining future.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

But I'm always, always, always excited about new things.