The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
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