Quotes About Curiosity

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers?

And then everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done.

by something off in the distance and was strangely, almost

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

Her petticoat had stripes of broad red and blue and looked as though it had been made out of a stage-curtain. I would have paid a lot for a front seat, but there was no performance.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

I hate to see her go, but Id love to watch her leave. But I keep her runnin back and forth like a soccer team.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

You learn to have a high weirdness tolerance as a witch.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life .

Americans could surprise you with the things they knew.

For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating