Active Quote by Willis R. Whitney Download Open image “The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.” — Willis R. Whitney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Active Attributes Conscious Consciousness Curiosity Ignorance Men Research Science Valuable
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end. — Jacob Viner Copy Share Image
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.” — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping. — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of… — Witney Carson Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
