Quotes About Curiosity

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

Covert your time for discovery

Life is all about discovery

Be eager to explore new discoveries

Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities

Don't be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

Every day is exciting when you don't live your life based on religion alone

Don't limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.

I think it's important that kids see another kid - Coraline - who doesn't have guns, she doesn't have super-powers, she's not a super-genius. To see a pretty normal kid - I mean, she's probably a little more curious, a little more stubborn, but she's a real kid - go up against something that's truly dark and evil and powerful. And she does win.

I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.