Rene Descartes Quotes

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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.

When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

Everything is an experiment.

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.

Play is experimenting with chance.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

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.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.