Frederick Seitz Quotes About Curiosity

• A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Childhood, Curiosity

• It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.

  Frederick Seitz

  Knowledge, Science, Cells

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.14, Springer Science & Business Media

• Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Innovation, Curiosity

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.39, Springer Science & Business Media

• Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

  Frederick Seitz

  Learning, Science, People

  Interview for the George C. Marshall Institute, September 3, 1997.

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