Quotes About Curiosity

Elementary schools get it right in the first place—they're multidisciplinary and use fuzzy logic, and you're making and doing things. So are doctoral studies. You enter as a question mark and leave as a question mark.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

In the opening paragraph Goldi commits felony breaking and entering. Why does she do it? Why does she risk five to ten in the slammer or death by bear claw?

Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.

How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?

how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school.

Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.

What do you make of him?" I asked Elizabeth. "Apart from the fact he's clearly insane?" "What can he learn from Konrad's blood?" I said. "Except that he needs it in his body to live!" "There is something ghoulish about it." "He's like a vampyre

I knew nothing of the matter, so said nothing. It made me feel rather downcast, all this knowledge locked away in books that I didn't know and likely never would. I loved books, but they were expensive and heavy and reading them took time I rarely had.

If taken at face value, the miraculous explanation would tell us that science is not worth the trouble, that it will never yield the answers we seek, and that nature will forever be beyond all human understanding. Sterile and nonproductive in its consequences, the claim of miracle would put a lid on curiosity, experimentation, and the human creative imagination.

Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said, "That, short-and-hairy, is what he meant.

But in order to look, one has to start with a beginner's mind that carries no preconceptions or presumptions. The beginner's mind looks to find out what is new; it does not look to confirm.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

Life is the question and children are the answer.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

I know the sky is not the limit, because there are footprints on the Moon -- and I made some of them!

I keep my closet neat now, The skeleton well covered. But when you even walk by the locked door, The breezes of your look Stir what hangs inside-- And I wonder what you are hearing When those knee-bones knock together.

Ahora que lo pienso, es bastante asombroso qué pocos secretos guarda la gente. Un par de charlas en un café, y ya están todos revelados. El secreto persiste sólo mientras nadie pregunta.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.