Curiosity Quote by Paul Nurse Download Open image “I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.” — Paul Nurse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Interest Natural Natural world Nature Science Thinking World
I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were. — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
I was interested in science before I even knew what science was. — George E. Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting. — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could… — George E. Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation,… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse 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