Hyman Rickover Quotes

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Science is always inquiring.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

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

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

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.

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

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

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.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

I'm willing and excited to learn whatever I can.