Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

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

Learning is constant. I learn something new every day.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

I look at every book as a new learning opportunity.

Children are just little scientists.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.