Quotes About Curiosity

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.