Quotes About Curiosity

Like your kind/ we usually destroy what we cannot understand

Why . . ." she begins. "Why do you want to climb it?" "Because it's there.

We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness.

We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness. We will not make the universe adapt Ã¢â'¬Â¦ we shall adapt.

There has to be more than this," I said. The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile. "Is there?" he said. "Please show me." He lifted the man's heart and seemed to weigh it in one hand.

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to.

Brawne set her hand on the thing's broad chest and pushed. The

Who knows what the Ousters will do?" he said. "They no longer appear to be motivated by human logic." Martin Silenus laughed loudly, spilling his wine as he gestured. "As if we fucking humans were ever motivated by human logic!

began to wonder when this expedition had crossed the boundary from the merely fantastic into the region of the absurdly unbelievable.

It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.

What if I had always known that the reason I looked different and felt different was in fact because I was different? It would be easy to fantasize that this would have been better. But we can never know what lies at the heart of the path not taken.

And it was so important to realize that I didn't know what was on the other side of the darkness. Every so often there was a sliver of light that shot the whole world through with mystery and wonder, and reminded me: I didn't have all the information.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —W. B. Yeats

my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world

Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery

data science requires more than math skills: it also takes people who have a wide-ranging curiosity, and whose innovation is guided by their own experience—not just data.

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.

May we generally be happy, generally be witty, generally be honest, but above all always be interesting.

Nobody knows why men do things.

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.