Quotes About Curiosity

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank

Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

Es curioso advertir con qué eficacia operan las cosas cuando uno las reconoce. Es curioso observar hasta qué punto es incómodo el regalo del mando.

He's all right. Just don't mention proton decay." "I'll try to talk around it.

BARNEY HAD never been in the barn before.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

T]he constitution of man's nature is of itself subject to desire novelty.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.

No te mates, Clara —dijo—. Si lo haces, nunca sabrás el final.

But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?

Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.