Quotes About Curiosity

Fabre believed that the methods of science must be consistent with our motives for knowing.

People are trying to get in?" "Sure. Just like that guy on the train. Curiosity seekers, freelance writers, photographers. It's amazing. It's barely been a day, Alice, and already the ghouls are descending. I figure by tomorrow someone'll be selling T-shirts and souvenir beer mugs.

He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon.

Kids were always writing FUCK on things. Hollis Jurkowski had always wondered whether the students, ranging in age from five to twelve, really knew what it meant or whether they just wrote it because they knew the word was particularly upsetting to grownups.

Straining against her leash, the puppy tried to go a hundred different ways at once.

We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya's father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it.

I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it's snowing and cold.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.

It was now evening, and by the dim light we could just discern the savage countenances around us, gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder; the naked forms and tattooed limbs of brawny warriors, with here and there the slighter figures of young girls... Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-night intimidated us.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

Whatever else astronomy may or may not be who can doubt it to be the most beautiful of the sciences?

My own love of books begins long before I start to read them. First of all, I am an incurable book-sniffer; when I open a new book I at once savour its scent, and I have had some odd looks from bookshop assistants in consequence...

...is it not kin of the human family with its roots in the earth and its arms stretching toward the sky as if to seek and to know the great mystery?

When people ask me what I did over the weekend I always squint and say, "Why, what did you hear?"

He was a little high-dried man, with a dark squeezed-up face, and small restless black eyes, that kept winking and twinkling on each side of his little inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual game of bo-peep with that feature.

There are people who place a basket on your head to see what you carry.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

Every once in a while, turn life over to see what it looks like from the other side.

An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted!

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.