Explanation Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they…

— Marie Curie

“Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies…

— Alan Jacobs

“A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring…

— Victoria Wagner

“Of course it is easier to sit the young child in front of the television than it is to read to him or to…

— Ursula Markham

Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps…

— Otto Robert Frisch

“Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely…

— Luis Alvarez

“It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years developing instead…

— Cynthia Rylant

“I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social skills -…

— Muffy Mead-Ferro

“Science explained people, but could not understand them.”

— E.M. Forster

“So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing…

— Dashiell Hammett

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.”

— Richard Dawkins