Quotes About Curiosity

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

No one is unreachable as long as he is teachable.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

If you've lived only by reasonableness, well, you have missed the show, haven't you?

Little did the children realize then that these walks - a time of freedom and play for them - were in reality precious lessons in science, history and biology.

The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanations which uphold his view of the world.

Science is always inquiring.

I saw a film today, oh boy, The English army had just won the war, A crowd of people turned away, But I just had to look, having read the book...

Don't make assumptions.

who says we can't touch ourselves to keep from getting bored? nothing else is touching thats for sure

The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.

I'd like to be able to do that too, matey. Window-shop, go to the odd movie. What's window-shopping really like, eh? If it's too much of a feast, you'd better not tell me.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a one-foot chain.

Do not dismiss what you do not understand

Good magic opens the mysteries to all; bad magic seeks simply to mystify.

Ask the next question.

Timothy, are you still black?