Curiosity Quote by Irving Langmuir

“Progress in science is guided by a sense of curiosity, or the desire to discover what is currently unknown. On the other hand, progress…

— Koichi Tanaka

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

— Anonymous

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one…

— Albert Einstein

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His…

— Nikola Tesla

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations…

— Michael Crichton

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying…

— Richard P. Feynman

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

— John Battelle