Quotes About Curiosity

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

We shall not cease from exploration

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Human beings are curious by nature.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.