Quotes About Curiosity

Maybe growing up the way we have, bad things feel good to us.

My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested.

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Taryn and she had a faerie lover who came to her at night. He was generous and adoring, but visited only in the dark. He asked for two things: one, for her to keep their meetings secret, and two, never to look upon his face fully. And so, night after night she took delight in him but, after some time had passed, wondered what his secret could be.

Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.

Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.

Why are you looking at Jude like that?' I asked. 'I can't help it,' he said, never taking his gaze from you. 'I'm drawn to trouble.

He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he'd never see me again.

Go away, close the book, put it down do not look!

Espera —dice, acercándose un paso—. Quiero volver a verte. —¿Por qué? —Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué haras. Quiero participar en el desarollo de la narración.

The first thing I noticed about her was that she had a smear of blue ink on her nose,' Vivi said. 'The second thing I noticed were her eyes, the colour of darkest amber. When she spoke, I was afraid she was talking to someone else.

I stare up, but whatever riddle is in the stars, I can't read it.

Hey, Hazel?" he called softly in the upstairs hall, and she turned. "What did he kiss like?" There was a confusion of emotions on his face—longing and maybe a little jealousy and a whole lot of curiosity. She snorted a surprised laugh, her bad mood dissolving. "Like he was a shark and I was blood in the water." "That good?" he asked, grinning.

He looked down at a red book, embossed in gold. The title was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. He frowned at it in confusion. It wasn't what he'd thought a mortal book would be like; he thought they would be dull things, odes to their cars or skyscrapers. ... 'This is really a mortal book?' he asked.

Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand

The more you learn, the less you know

Dan had begun working his way around the room starting at the food wall. "Here's a little wheel to twist" he said, and an instant later, "Genna, it has water in it. Good sweet water. And when you twist the wheel, it stops and starts." And a moment later, "A little room with a privy! But" echoing noises. "Oh," he said, sounding elated, "when you press a handle, water wahses the inside of the privy. You should see this!

Too often, we conclude in terms of the known, that which is not yet known.

for she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through —the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form,

La chiave di tutte le scienze è indiscutibilmente il punto di domanda.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

When Alice says she cannot believe in impossible things, the Queen replies: 'I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.