Quotes About Curiosity

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?

But now, in the daily business of our warped cosmos, Vulcan barley registers, even as an antiquarian curiosity. Only a few have some vague memory of the story – mostly physicists and astronomers with a historical bent. For them, Vulcan is a cautionary tale: it's so damn easy to see what one wants or expects to find.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world's midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular attraction which had once promised so much would send you on your way unrewarded, purged of your curiosity and the poorer for being so.

How much of what we do, from the ridiculous to the sublime, would not be done if we did not die? In tha blank face of mortality we always ask , "What's next?

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

The question is there, whther we answer it or not.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know them.

H?ristiyan kilisesi ad? verilen kuram?n pagan mitolojisinin kuyruÄŸuna tak?l?p yeÅŸerdiÄŸini gözlemlemek ilgi çekicidir.

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.

He felt his jaw again, wiggling it back and forth, then nodding. "And now you'll be tellin' me they started

Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these printed scraps clutched in your hands. Fragments would hint at ideal books, impossible books, books that you have always longed to read.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

The task of science is investigation pure and simple," he said quietly. "Not to try to prove this or that." He

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess