Irving Langmuir Quotes

I discover a lot of things on my own.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

You always need to be curious and study.

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

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

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

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

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.