Quotes About Curiosity

As he watched his flocks by Mount Horeb, he saw a bush that was blazing without being consumed. He said, "Let me check out this amazing sight and find out why the bush isn't burning up." And then, the telling sentence: "When the LORD saw that he was coming to look, God called to him out of the bush" (Ex 3:3-4). I think it

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST

One evening, the story goes, the two men were looking out of their laboratory window in Heidelberg at a fire raging in the nearby town of Mannheim. Curious about what might be burning, they pointed their spectroscope at the flames. They were able to detect the presence of the elements barium and strontium in the fire, whose spectra they had previously identified in their laboratory. The question struck them immediately: if they could analyse flames in Mannheim, why not the surface of the Sun?

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?