Paulo Coelho Quotes

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

Above all, try something

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

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.

Science is always inquiring.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.