Quotes About Curiosity

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

Leon M. Lederman

Those who have taken the side streets have changed the way people live on this planet. But those who stay with The Road find that it is clearly marked all the way with the same sign: "How does the universe work?

A wall of books is a wall of windows.

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

better than me are you kinder than me are you sweeter smarter faster you you you prettier than me stronger than me lonelier than me I want to get to know you better and better

Now I need your hidden love, I'm cold as a new razor blade. You left when I told you I was curious… I never said that I was brave. from "So Long Marianne

I don't ask for information that I probably wouldn't be able to process even if it were granted to me. --Aug 2016 interview, when asked what might be in store for us after the big sunset

Mintea mea zboar? tot mai departe de-a lungul acestei È™osele înguste, mânat? de curiozitate, str?lucind de acceptare, tot mai departe, ca un cârlig cu pene, aruncat cu m?iestrie È™i înfipt adânc în lumina de deasupra pârâului. Undeva, unde eu nu pot ajunge È™i unde nu mai am control, cârligul se îndreapt? È™i devine suli??, suliÈ›a se scurteaz? È™i devine ac, iar acul coase lumea la un loc.

It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. — Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game . (Vintage; Reprint edition October 14, 2003) Originally published January 1st 1963.

For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

The gardener quickly reached for his spectacles and squinted at the carriage in the distance.

world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us.

the world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Che popolo», pensò con un disprezzo venato di gelosia: e che in qualunque posto del mondo, là dove l'orlo di una gonna saliva di qualche centimetro sul ginocchio, nel raggio di trenta metri c'era sicuramente un siciliano, almeno uno, a spiare il fenomeno.

Although still driven by curiosity and ambition, she did not realize quite how much she had herself become viewed as a curiosity of her time. Still less could she know how, much later, she would come to be seen as the paradigmatic woman of the High Renaissance.

This God sounds rather suspicious to me," said Mopple.