Fabiola Gianotti Quotes

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

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

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.

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

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

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

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

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

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

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.