George E. P. Box Quotes

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.