Quotes About Curiosity

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history.

All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.

Mikääs tuolla reppujen alla pihisee. – Poikahan se siellä.

Mää olen ahven. Mää olen hiilest tehty ahven… Mää ihmettelen kauhiast.

Mut mikä hitto tuol? Mitä hyö raahaat? Onk hyö tappant Koskelan?

Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and circumference, Diameter and such. A silent child stood by them From morning until noon Because they drew such charming Round pictures of the moon.

he would have been the first to scoff at the notion of labeling himself anything other than an explorer. His words to me were, 'If you aren't willing to take the risks, then you can't make the discoveries.

It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo.

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.

Zora and her playmate Carrie Roberts also "spent long afternoons reading what Moses told the Hebrews not to do in Leviticus," Zora remembered. "In that way I found out a number of things the old folks would not have told me. Not knowing what we were actually reading, we got a lot of praise from our elders for our devotion to the Bible.

Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous".

Don't write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

I would rather live with unanswered questions than unquestioned answers,

Quien ve el mar siente miedo, pero también una atracción invencible, la ansiedad de conocer lo que esconde su interminable vastedad.

Van Gogh: "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

Some of us have looked up at the night sky and wondered about other worlds that might be kin to us, other hearths and homes that might welcome us, through which we would experience a different becoming. Some of us yearn for those connections waiting for us on other shores. We seek to feed within us the god of wonder, to open within ourselves dusty rooms we didn't know existed and let in the air and light of other worlds.

Gossip can be entertaining—occasionally I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

SNOVNO VASPITANJE Ska?em s krova na krov I ogromnom mrežom za leptire Lovim tehnokrate birokrate Gnoseokrate Najlepše primerke stavljam U staklenke sa alkoholom I na ceduljama im ispisujem U?ena imena Pokazujem ih ?acima na ?asu Zajedno sa dinosaurima Gigantosaurima tiranosaurima Koji poslušno silaze Sa zidova u?ionice I ti sladiš moj san Vidim smeje ti se levo uvo Izaziva me jedna mirna bubica Moj poznanik nastavnik prirodopisa

I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.