Barry Marshall Quotes

Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing.

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

I think it's something you're born with - the desire to know how things work inside.

I am not shy when it comes to asking questions.

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.

Everything always interests me.

I'm just a very curious guy who has a lot of possibility.

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.

I'm probably, like, the nosiest person you'll ever meet. Not in a rude way, but I like to be in the know.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

I think I was always a curious kid.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.