Roger Penrose Quotes

Science is always inquiring.

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

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

Science is about unravelling nature.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

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.

Science is a quest for understanding.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is about filling in the details.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.