Curiosity Quote by Irving Langmuir Download Open image “The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.” — Irving Langmuir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Desire Motivated Motivation Science Scientist Truth
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don't have any curiosity you better choose… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity — Craig Mello Copy Share Image
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work.… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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