James Jeans Quotes

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I love new questions.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

No one is dumb who is curious.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.