Quotes About Curiosity

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for.

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

It was also Jacque who told me that children didn't come out of their mother's tummies. As she put it, "Where the ingredients go in is where the finished product comes out!"

A little girl had been looking at some pictures of angels and she turned to her mamma and asked: "Mamma, why are there no men in heaven?" "But there are men in heaven," replied her mother. "Then why is it," asked the child, "that we never see any pictures of angels with whiskers or mustache?" "True," was the reply," but there are men in heaven, only they get in by a close shave.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.

Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte.

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: forget about it. Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. One day, you will glance up at your collection of Japanese literature, or trip over the solar oven you built, and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead?

Normally, when they opened up the womb, they were presented with the top of the baby's head, and then with its face, its eyes squinched tight. All they could see inside Chiasoka was a mess of tubes, like a bowlful of thick cannelloni, although some of the tubes appeared to have rows of small nobbles on them, which could have been rudimentary fingers.

I'm curious about life, period.

Further west, on the edge of the Iraty forest, a naked, hairy man who could run like a deer, and who was later thought to be the remnant of a Neanderthal colony, was spotted several times in 1774, indulging in his favourite pastime: scattering flocks of sheep. On the last occasion, when the shepherds tried to catch him, he ran away, giggling, and was never seen again.