Freeman Dyson Quotes

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Science is always inquiring.

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.

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.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

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

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.