Assault Quote by Matt Ridley

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing…

— Soren Kierkegaard

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge. This has hugely expanded…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Irving Langmuir

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means…

— Claude Bernard

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for…

— Karl Popper

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

— Craig Mello

“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble…

— Jimmy Sangster