Emile Durkheim Quotes

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

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

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.

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.'

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.

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

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

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

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

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

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.

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 gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.