Quotes About Curiosity

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

I'm terrified of the unknown, which is a driving force for me. I like this idea that the things that terrify us also draw us in.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, 'Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.'