Quotes About Curiosity

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

There was a lot I didn't understand about messiahs.

Cevap alamaman?z?n en büyük nedeni sorular? sormam?? olman?zd?r.

Anlamaya önem verin. Ne zaman soru sorsan?z size yan?t veren bir düÅŸünce sistemini sadece birkaç on y?l içinde ve hiç fark?nda olmadan kurduÄŸunuzu göreceksiniz.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

One spring afternoon as a child in the strange town of Portland, I walked down to a different street corner, and saw a row of old houses, huddled together like seals on a rock.

I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence?

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.

To say that something happened supernaturally is not just to say 'We don't understand it' but to say 'We will never understand it, so don't even try.

one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

If you need a geography lesson in order to know where Africa is – if, by age seventeen, you have somehow failed to imbibe such knowledge by osmosis or simple curiosity – you surely don't have the sort of mind that would benefit from a university education.

What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue?

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it.

There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding: Yeats's 'Winds that blow through the starry ways'.

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it.

children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think.

Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.