Cornelia Funke Quotes

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.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

The starting point is a question.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

I keep six honest serving men.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Hiding is for amateurs.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.