Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

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.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

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.'

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

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

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

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.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

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

Kids are natural scientists.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.