Jeff Bezos Quotes

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

I've always been fascinated by real scientists - Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others - how they've come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It is not enough that a problem should be "interesting".

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.