Passion for Discovery Quotes

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.