Quotes About Curiosity

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.