Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

• The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.

  Albert Einstein

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  Zora Neale Hurston

• All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.

  Arthur Aufderheide

• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

  William Arthur Ward

• The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.

  Albert Einstein

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

• Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

  Benjamin Franklin

• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

  Dr. Seuss

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  W.B. Yeats

• If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

  Zig Ziglar

• The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.

  B.B. King

• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Ellen Parr

• Science is about curiosity. It’s about rigor. It’s about doubting yourself. It’s about doubting your peers. It’s about applying a strict methodology to problem solving, to arrive at results. That’s the soul of science. That’s what…

  Paul Sutter

• This is not the first era in which Americans have held widely divergent views on important areas of morality, ethics, law and public policy. And it is not the first time that these disagreements have seemed so important, and their airing so…

  Britt Grant

• I just want to facilitate information flow.

  Mark Zuckerberg

• The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

  Ken Norris

• You want to control people? Tell them a messiah will come. They’ll wait. For centuries.

  Frank Herbert, Dune

• Find what nobody else wants to do and do it. Find inefficiency and waste and redundancies. Identify leaks and patches to free up resources for new areas. Produce more than everyone else and give your ideas away. Always say less than necessary.…

  Ryan Holiday

• Things happen fairly slowly, you know. They do. These waves of technology, you can see them way before they happen, and you just have to choose wisely which ones you're going to surf. If you choose unwisely, then you can waste a lot of energy, but…

  Steve Jobs