Quotes About Curiosity

He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.

If you ask a question, you can't stop there. You must keep going. You can't stop there: World will wave; will be facetious, angry. You can't stop there. You have to keep on going.

Rea azon gondolkozott, hogyan iszik a kefeköt?, és egyáltalán ki az és mit csinál. Csöngettek, mert éppen volt áram (…).

I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

When I was five years old I fell head downward into an empty cistern and was not found until six hours later, at which time I was quietly eating dirt. The year after that I fell out of a neighbor's barn loft. These experiences constitute an adequate preparation for a career in journalism — the equivalent of four years in college

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.

I wanted to find out why. But when Professor Dandrik saw what was happening, he became almost hysterical, and ordered the accelerator shut down as though he were afraid it would blow up in his face." "I think it has blown up in his face," Prince Travann said quietly.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Let some things remain mysterious.

Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

He suspected that when Feynman wanted to know what an electron would do under given circumstances he merely asked himself, "If I were an electron, what would I do?

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through a sequence of intellectual revolutions, constructing theories and promptly shedding them when they no longer fit. The unfamiliar and the strange—these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as "the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board."?

whether it means anything to ask why we're here....

He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.

impatiently and looked around the room. It wasn't anything a millionaire's wife would get excited about. Tony, my

Gently I pointed out that it should be "sheep," and though he was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he launched into an interrogation as to why the singular should be the same as the plural and wanted to know all the other English words which had this peculiarity.

Then the nose moved along the rubber tube up to the bottle and back again, sniffing with the utmost concentration. When I removed the needle the nose began a careful inspection of the injection site. Then a tongue appeared and began to lick the bullock's neck methodically. I squatted back on my heels and watched. This was something more than mere curiosity; everything in the dog's attitude suggested intense interest and concern.

I shall be very deeply interested—in due course.

I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . loaded with endless possibilities.

Enjoy every step you take. There is always something new to be discovered.