Quotes About Curiosity

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.

I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this archeology. It was so dry. But I forced myself to read it because it was my first book out of the library. Should have gotten a 'Hardy Boys.'

Travel is the spice of life.

There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

I think most schoolboys are most excited by scorpions, spiders and snakes, and I never really grew up. I've always had the same fascinations. I think that we as human beings are the most fascinated by those creatures that we consider dangerous.