Quotes About Curiosity

Kelly Milner Halls

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must be memorized and regurgitated. Yet in the "real science you're not too worried about the right answer... Real science recognizes that you have an advantage over practically any other human enterprise because what you are after- call it truth or understanding- waits patiently for you while you screw up.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves," Rilke advised

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks)

Life needs a touch of mystery and not everything requires an answer

He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.

there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia.

If you never open a map until you're lost, you're missing out on all the fun.

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.

El juego es absolutamente fundamental para el aprendizaje: es el fruto natural de la curiosidad y de la imaginación.

Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.

that if we keep our focus too tight, we miss the rest of the world swirling around us.

Kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong. If they aren't sure what to do in a particular situation, they'll just have a go at it and see how things turn out. This is not to suggest being wrong is the same thing as being creative. Sometimes being wrong is just being wrong. What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.