Quotes About Curiosity

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

Isn't it better to just leave some doors in our lives closed?" "Not if you're always going to wonder what might have been behind them.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

The effort is said to be only theoretical so far, but it is hard to think that pursuits in this direction have not already commenced here and there.

was entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard. I spent the next few hours reading it, and then re-read it two more times.

It was entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard.

What, is THAT it? Is that all there is to life, to MY life, to MY existence? And even the young can

I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Only ignorants get bored

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path.

Che vale poter vedere in quarant'anni dieci volte, in vece che una, le quattro parti del mondo? Né il mondo s'allarga né la vita s'allunga per ciò; e chi pensa troppo, correrà sempre fuori di quei limiti nell'infinito, nel mistero senza luce.

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

Is that where Marinth is?

I always listen in on conversations — that always interests me. You never know what you might learn from it.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

I fear my ignorance.

To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really see what the big deal is about getting to the Moon with the computers and the mid-course-corrections. I know you are a bunch of engineers, and you know better than I do, but I ask you ... once you get there beyond the atmosphere, do you or do you not see the Moon?

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.