Quotes About Curiosity

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

We must go and see for ourselves.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Study nature not books

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

The more you look, the more you will see.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

May books and nature be their early joy!

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.