Quotes About Curiosity

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

Definition is the death of discovery.

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something.

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

To create, one must first question everything.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.