Quotes About Curiosity

How come they can take out tumors, but they can't take out thoughts?" I didn't know what to say. It was a question that all of us had asked at one point or another. But no one had ever come up with an answer.

Can Total, um, talk?" "Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair. I stared at her. "He talks. Total talks, and you didn't tell me?" "Well…" Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting.

Why are you here, young man? Shouldn't you be home watching Thomas the Tank Engine with the rest of the kids in your kindergarten class?

poked his head into the vehicle.

And? you're thinking. Spaghetti Bolognese?! you're thinking. What's that got to do with anything? Well, as my homeroom teacher Mr. Rourke would say, "read on Macduff," which is something to do with Shakespeare. See? You've learned something already!

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.

I like to write on anything that is intriguing, unheard of - something that is offbeat.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.