Quotes About Curiosity

When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.

All right, then. Your name, young woman." "Calliope McCauley Michaelson." Daniel swung around and stared at her. Flannery began flipping the pages in his book. "Calliope?" Daniel whispered. She shrugged. "My father was very fond of the circus." He was smirking. She was about to get married, and the groom was smirking.

she was next to the skeleton of what

A little black plastic horse. This time, it was received by a colleague of mine, a guy I worked with years ago. Andy Mason, Assistant Field Director out there. He has no idea where it came from. It wasn't mailed to him—it was on his doorstep when he went home last night.

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.

Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.

Why is it that parents always want to know every detail about your boring day at school?

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. —Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

firm believer in knowing people by knowing what they read, holding their favorite words in your mouth, running curious fingers along the spines of their books.

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

She approached with her tail up in the air and waving slowly back and forth. The fringe of hair

In fact, there's nothing like travel to swing wide all the artistic channels,

he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes

I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

Young children also play to learn about the world. Why aren't we amused when our toddler drops her food off the high chair for the hundredth time? Because we know about gravity (and we have to clean it up). She, however, is extremely amused, because everything about the universe is new and interesting and open to playful discovery.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

personal confusion, search, and self-interrogation are more important than any answers could ever be.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a