Quotes About Curiosity

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

I was 15 when Chernobyl happened, I've been vaguely thinking about it for most of my life. But somewhere around 2015, it occurred to me that I didn't know how it happened, which seemed like a pretty bizarre lapse in my understanding of the world and how it functions.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.

Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

I'm fascinated by the challenge of navigating the oceans.

I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.