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Quotes About Curiosity

The front door opened; Gersen whirled. In the opening stood a middle-aged man no larger than a boy of ten. His head was round; his eyes brimmed with curiosity, flicking over Gersen, around the room. He had large features, long pointed ears, a heavy protuberant mouth: a Highland Imp from the Highlands of Krokinole, one of the more specialized races of the Concourse.
~ Jack Vance
But still — there's always excitement The star gleams, you notice a circlet of planets, you ask yourself, will it be now? And time after time: the smoke and ammonia, the weird crystals, the winds of monoxide, the rains of acid. But you go on and on and on. Perhaps in the region ahead the elements coalesce into nobler forms. Of course it's the same slime and black trap and methane snow. And then suddenly: there it is. Utter beauty Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Jack Vance
young Araminta Smade
~ Jack Vance
For the first time Gersen saw indigenous fauna of Moudervelt: a band of lizard-foxes, with gray-green pangolin scales and a single optic orb. They reared high to watch Gersen pass by; when he slowed the car they advanced with dancing sidelong steps, for purposes Gersen could not guess. He drove on, leaving the troop staring after him.
~ Jack Vance
might have been the people which left ruins on the Fomalhaut planets, or the Hexadelts, or whoever carved Monument Cliff on Xi Puppis X.
~ Jack Vance
But knowledge creates a craving for further knowledge. Where is the harm in knowledge?
~ Jack Vance
Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions.
~ Jack W.
Are you from Tennessee
~ Jacob
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
~ W. B. Yeats
Jacob Bronowski
~ Charles Darwin
Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
~ Jacqueline Carey
slipped past them to return to the palace to engage in pointless speculation with Zariya.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Me parece que no soy más que eso, preguntas sin respuesta.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Oh wow! There's a great big Range Rover pulled up outside and a big girl's getting out!' Jonnie yelled. 'I think we might like her after all if she lets us have a ride in her big posh car!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Where is everything?' Kendall and I chorused.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Rosehips and crab apples, They are my fruit. Rabbit foot, snakeskin And eye of newt, Duck's beak and antler Ground up for a spell. I am the witch's child But I wish you well.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Milly-Molly-Mandy
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson
~ people-watching.
What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and so on, what I am really curious about is what happens to ordinary men, women, and children in extraordinary times.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond.
~ Jacqueline Winspear