Research is appreciation.

- Willis R. Whitney

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

- Willis R. Whitney

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts mo…

- Willis R. Whitney

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

- Willis R. Whitney

The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which even…

- Willis R. Whitney

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

- Willis R. Whitney

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown m…

- Willis R. Whitney

I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to…

- Willis R. Whitney

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

- Willis R. Whitney