Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

I don't know why I feel the need to try and do everything. But I kind of have this mentality that you live once, and I have a lot of things that I want to do and there's a lot of things that I want to try. So I have to at least give it a shot before I don't try at all or like, give up on things.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

I do love a conspiracy theory myself, but I'm more of an alien, mermaid sort of conspiracy girl.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

I have never met a document I don't like.

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.

You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.