Quotes About Curiosity

Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!

Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.

She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist's conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo.

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

The Queen of a distant land fell in love with a bull. Nevermind how odd that sounds! The ancient world was as appalling place.

Calpurnia squinted through her goggles and thought to herself, That is a Key. Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

CHYTERA: [...] May I... May I ask? You wear a wedding ring, but on the wrong hand. Indulge my curiosity? ERASMO: She didn't want to get married. Doesn't mean I wasn't her husband.

September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

I think this is very strange --" "All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).

On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.

Thomas did not pay much attention to his lessons that day. It hardly mattered as Mrs. Wilkinson only seemed interested in how to make an "A" and what colour was magenta and how to add one and one together. Thomas knew all that. Only that morning he'd been reading a book full of big violent illustrations of the great battles of Britain, with quite a lot of magenta in it.

Questing Physicks isn't like the Quiet and Queer branches. You can't do it at home in a comfortable chair—you have to be out in the thick of the business, with your tools on your belt and your heart on your sleeve!

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !

Empiricism and philosophy itself are both sensuous and sensual. The desire to know is desire.

Paddy asks me, smiling

Un nombre bastante anticuado. Nos preguntábamos de dónde lo habrías sacado. Casi me atraganto con la comida.

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside — children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

I suppose the answer was that if something can be known, I can't stand not knowing it.

Was she hitting on him? He

I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars.