Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Things change, and so do I. A best friend changes too, I always wonder why.

Do they ever shut up on your planet?

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I like to feel like I am not bored. I also like to be busy and try everything out.

I don't wanna have a baby now , but I wanna experience being pregnant just to see how it would be.

When someone is staring at you, you secretly get self conscious and wonder what they're thinking.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

If you want to know all about

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.