Walter Gilbert Quotes

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

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

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

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.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

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.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.