George F. Will Quotes

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

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.

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.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

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

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

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

I love to know why things work.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.

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

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

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

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

No one is dumb who is curious.

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?