Hans Selye Quotes

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.

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

I'm very interested in science.

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

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

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

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.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

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

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Science is always inquiring.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

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

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.