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Quotes About Curiosity

Hey, who let you in here?!
~ David Cross
Religion is born out of questions, not answers.
~ David Dark
the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
~ David Deutsch
on learning how to reject their authority. This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto 'Nullius in verba', which means something like 'Take no one's word for it.
~ David Deutsch
This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto 'Nullius in verba', which means something like 'Take no one's word for it.
~ David Deutsch
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
~ David Dinkins
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
~ David Eagleman
Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.
~ David Emerson
Il continuait inlassablement à caresser les cheveux de Nathalie. Il les aimait tellement, il voulait les connaître un par un, savoir leur histoire et leur pensée. Il voulait partir en voyage dans ses cheveux...
~ David Foenkinos
Natalie and François met on the street. It's always a tricky thing when a man comes up to a woman. She's bound to wonder, Is that what he spends his time doing? Quite often the men are going to claim that it's the first time.
~ David Foenkinos
Le livre que l'on cherche n'est par forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.
~ David Foenkinos
Certains physique ressemble à une question sans réponse. On sait juste qu'on ne peut pas détourner le regard. Quand il est là, on ne voit que lui.
~ David Foenkinos
Cuánto le habría gustado a Gourvec que la fundó. Le agradaba que se interesasen por su biblioteca. Era la obra de su vida, como quien dice. Convirtió los fracasos de los otros en su propio triunfo.
~ David Foenkinos
La curiosidad delimita el mundo de los vivos del de las sombras.
~ David Foenkinos
Aby Warburg est ainsi à l'origine d'un fonds bibliophilique inouï. Il a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.
~ David Foenkinos
Il la regarda comme si elle était un effraction de la réalité.
~ David Foenkinos
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Humans are always looking for explanations. I'm not interested in them. Is that food over there? Is there water over the hill? Where is there shade from the midday sun and a warm rock to rest on at night? These are the important questions.
~ David G. Hartwell

Today we've only explored about 3 percent of what's out there in the ocean. Already we've found the world's highest mountains, the world's deepest valleys, underwater lakes, underwater waterfalls … . There's still 97 percent, and either that 97 percent is empty or just full of surprises.

~ David Gallo
It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.
~ David Goodis
We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.
~ David Gregory
Okay, engineering is not quite the right word, as it implies some larger degree of understanding than we have. We are perhaps engineering Earth only in the way that your infant is "engineering" your home media system when she sticks cookies in the DVD slot.
~ David Grinspoon
These disturbances are the product of our human propensity to explore in teams, to develop new tools to expand our domain to places that are not part of our "natural" habitat.
~ David Grinspoon
Sono saggio soprattutto riguardo alle cose che non so
~ David Grossman