Quotes About Curiosity

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

If one just tried to invent a universe on one's own, it would probably end up being a much less colorful and interesting universe than the one that we live in.

It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.

It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Although we don't know what is outside our universe, astronomers still wonder. Several pictures of what there might be have been dreamed up. An interesting one, called multiverse, has lots of universes. Picture it as a foam of bubbles. Our universe would be one bubble, and we'd be surrounded by lots of other bubbles.

Stop working so hard at being interesting and focus on what's outside yourself. There are universes out there that need to be explored. And, an interested person is extremely interesting.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.