Quotes About Curiosity

These people are as happy as, say, Fraa Orolo. They get what they want: naked ladies on their wheels. He gets what he wants: upsight to the mysteries of the universe.

Gomer Bolstrood

Get where?" Yul demanded.

Other people would want to sentimentalize about the old days, but the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment. "I

had in mind a Dr. Waterhouse," Eliza said. "He was cut for the stone recently." The Marquis got the same aghast, cringing, yet fascinated look that all men did whenever the topic of lithotomy arose

Henry, que en aquel momento tenía once años, no había prestado atención al proceso de elevar el imponente cohete hasta su posición vertical porque se distrajo viendo un par de perros callejeros copulando a unos cien metros del punto de lanzamiento. El

I'll be honest with you: as a physicist, I am a hack," he admitted. "I majored in it, yes, but I was never employed in that capacity. But if you cut me I still bleed physicist blood. I'll go to my grave believing that, if magic existed, there's a scientific explanation for it.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do

he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached

How can you remember shit like that?" Ty asked.

Pursuing an explanation for every strange thing you see in the Philippines is like trying to get every last bit of rainwater out of a discarded tire.

Neal Stephenson

techniques. That combined with subject's intense curiosity and drive to escape what she sees as the stifling confines of a traditional medieval Jewish household led to her devising the plan that led to her materializing in ODEC #3.

Neal Stephenson

into a fake argument. The other side, facing the user, was a list of little reminders as to what was really going on: Speech is aggression Every utterance has a winner and a loser Curiosity is feigned Lying is performative Stupidity is power

Randy used to be fascinated by software, but now he isn't. It's hard enough to find human beings who are interesting.

summary to me. I thought you couldn't summarize.

Izzy estaba llena de gente que se orientaba hacia el extremo Asperger del espectro social y la mejor forma de hacerla hablar era preguntarle por algún detalle técnico.

There is a saying, 'Turtles all the way down,' which I would not expect you to understand, but the point of it is that to speculate along these lines is idle

she knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations.

I wanted to shout: one Far Side on the door does not an interesting person make.

Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be.

What makes one man's life more interesting than another's? In general, I should say that we find unpredictable or novel things more interesting.

Do you remember the total eclipse of 3680 when we made a camera obscura so we could see it without burning our eyes?" "A box," I recalled, "with a pinhole at one end and a sheet of white paper at the other.