"If there wasn't anything to find out,..." - Quote by Mark Twain
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.
More by Mark Twain
“Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.”
“The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”
“Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion”
More on Curiosity
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.”
“It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.”
More on Discovery
“There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.”
“The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.”
“All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.”