Quotes About Curiosity

Faith doesn't forbid exploration. It's dogma that does. Dogma, by definition, is threatened by questions, while faith welcomes questions because it trusts that God, being magisterial, can handle them. That's a God whose grace can be felt by curious individuals everywhere.

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.

Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe. - Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle. - Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma. - That's only good manners, ah shrugs.

like a bairn trying tae stay up as late as possible.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Education isn't something you can finish.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

Space, man, have you no respect for science?

he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Consider the question suitably modified.

Feet, for tens of thousands of years, had clogged and shuffled in the mud – and held down the minds which, for an equal time, had been fit for the companionship of the stars.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.

no matter how sure scientists think they are, nature has a way of surprising them.

Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly.

What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.

Perché tante persone passavano la loro vita senza cercare la risposta a tutte le domande che c'erano... anzi, senza nemmeno porsi le domande? si chiese Seldon. Nella vita, esisteva qualcosa di più eccitante della ricerca delle risposte?

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.