Quotes About Curiosity

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - The Life of Pi

And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.

Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedésem igenis számít. Élni akarok. Muszáj belekevernem az életemet a világegyetem életébe. Az élet egy kémlelÅ'nyílás, az egyetlen pici út egy végtelenségbe – hogyan hagyhatnám ki ezt a kurta, sz?k pillantást, amit a világra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott!

Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church—and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.

We came to the zebras. Mr. Kumar had never heard of such creatures, let alone seen one. He was dumbfounded. "They're called zebras," I said. "Have they been painted with a brush?" "No, no. They look like that naturally." "What happens when it rains?" "Nothing." "The stripes don't melt?" "No.

I can well imagine that somewhere far off, 150 miles away, a ship's watch looked up, startled, and later reported the oddest thing, that he thought he heard a cat's meow coming from three o'clock. Days

onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds;

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I

just beyond the ticket booth father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? an arrow pointed to a small curtain. there were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at that curtain that we had to replace it regularly. behind it was a mirror

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested....

Christopher Kenworthy

When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?

Living on the edge wasn't about danger, he realized. It was about curiosity; audacious curiosity, like

Loveable as he is, Lawrence is a hyperkinetic freak, and the world is far too full of marvels and joys for him to ever do anything except lunge and swerve toward whatever catches his eye.

encontrando en qué se parecían. Así que llevó a cabo un truco que le había enseñado el doctor Bramble: cuando no puedes dar respuesta a una pregunta, dale la vuelta. Olvidemos qué es lo que da velocidad, pensemos en qué te quita velocidad. Después de todo, no solo importaba cuán rápido podía ir un conejo, sino cuán rápido podía seguir corriendo hasta que encontrara un agujero donde zambullirse.

Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen

Children see magic because they look for it.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.