Adventure Quote by Brian Cox

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed…

— Arthur Koestler

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious.…

— Serge Haroche

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of…

— Isaac Newton

The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable…

— Hope Jahren

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from…

— Isaac Newton

“Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for people living…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

— Isaac Newton

“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most curiosity-driven desire.”

— Anonymous

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

— Isaac Newton

“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone…

— Julian Barnes