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Quotes About Curiosity

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
~ Unknown
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
~ Bill Gates
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.
~ Alex Trebek
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
~ Martin Rees
I loved the idea of understanding people, places, concepts, concerns and large international questions. And being the one to go out and get the answers.
~ Abigail Spanberger
Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.
~ Hank Green
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
~ Aaron Klug
Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
~ Lucy Dacus
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Science is a quest for understanding.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
~ Ted Allen
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
~ Bill Bryson
Science fiction is something I never understood.
~ John Waters
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
~ Niall Ferguson
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!
~ Deb Caletti
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
~ Mal Peet
I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!
~ Kellan Lutz
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
~ Graham Hawkes
There is a lot of the world that is undiscovered.
~ Nuseir Yassin
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me.
~ Ronald Frame
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
~ Frederick Pollock
I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.
~ Antonya Nelson