Quotes About Curiosity

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

As a celebrity, I understand that people are intrigued about our lives and want to know more. But I am also a human being and I grow angry about the same things that any other person would.

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.