Walter Gilbert Quotes

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

You always need to be curious and study.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.