Isaac Asimov Quotes

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

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

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

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.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

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

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

I'm motivated by curiosity.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.