Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet Quotes

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

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

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.

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

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

We learn only to ask more questions.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.