Roderick MacKinnon Quotes

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

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

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I always want to know about things.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.