Quotes About Curiosity

For Leonardo, this talent may have been connected to growing up with a love of nature while not being overly schooled in received wisdom.

His curiosity was aided by the sharpness of his eye, which focused on things that the rest of us glance over.

Oddest of all, there is this entry: "Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men."10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do

computers to them, he asked if he could meet Baez. A few weeks later he and Baez

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

As he aged, he pursued his scientific inquiries not just to serve his art but out of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation. When he groped for a theory of why the sky appears blue, it was not simply to inform his paintings. His curiosity was pure, personal, and delightfully obsessive.

Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as he did.

It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The shy Quaker said nothing. Don't be modest, Eddington, said Silverstein. Replied Eddington, On the contrary, I'm just wondering who the third might be.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

Darwin and Wallace had a key trait that is a catalyst for creativity: they had wide-ranging interests and were able to make connections between different disciplines.

Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees—and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?

Scientists who proclaim that space comes to an end somewhere are under some obligation to tell us what lies beyond it.

Electrical fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning. But since they agree in all particulars wherein we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this?" To which he added a momentous rallying cry: "Let the experiment be made.

His life was a constant quest for unifying theories.

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Her work also illustrates, as Leonardo da Vinci's did, that the key to innovation is connecting a curiosity about basic science to the practical work of devising tools that can be applied to our lives—moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside.

The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.

Tasks . . . she'd been putting off, she suddenly dove into, such as talking to Joel about sex. Instead of teaching him as she'd taught me — with the help of college nursing texts that made the sexual organs look like plants — she use the new Penthouse .

Who were all these people, so many of them so brown? What was this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses.

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Readin' good books is like meetin' a girl you wanna get to know bettah