Quotes About Curiosity

I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

There's a lot of interest in Nano outside India.

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it