Quotes About Curiosity

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

If light travels so fast, How come afternoons are so long?

when I looked up, the world got a lot bigger. That's one thing Unc did from the start—he made the world a lot bigger.

the kid was leaning against the window.

listen to the parts of ourselves that are more inclined toward curiosity, trust, and cooperation.

I don't understand why this isn't enough for you. Why the world isn't enough for you. Why you are so obsessed with magic when you have all the wonder of humanity around you.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Lewis Alison, a dark, craggy man of more than common height, gave no sign of sharing in the general curiosity. He stayed in his place, seeming to have wrapped himself in a composure not easily disturbed.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Thanks Joe P. for the quote)

To demand to know is the obligation of every American. That it occasionally leads people down blind alleys, or off to Atlantis, is to be celebrated, not scorned.

I said: I don't ever find people uninteresting. On the contrary, I find them so fascinating and so highly-flavoured that after small helpings, I have to go away and chew them slowly and analyse the taste of them.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he said, looking at his aunt, "from star to star.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

Do not block the way of inquiry.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton 's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

If a man burns to learn and sets himself to comparing his ideas with experimental results in order that he may correct those ideas, every scientific man will recognize him as a brother, no matter how small his knowledge may be.