"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and……" — Irving Langmuir

"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."

— Irving Langmuir

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13 Quotes by Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do…
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as…
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to…
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack…
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of…
Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the…
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit…
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for…
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

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More Curiosity Quotes

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — Russell Baker
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

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