Quotes About Curiosity

There are so many great stories that happen in real life there's really no need to think them up at all. I always tell children I have got idea antennae flapping around waiting to grab ideas as they fly past.

Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

Everyone had forgotten her. But that's the way Penny was-- so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma's house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people's lives as if watching a movie.

They have no awe left in them for the little marvels. All their wonder has turned to appetite.

This Captain Rhal of yours sounds like someone worth knowing," Micum said. "I've thought so ever since you told how he let you go that night." "Micum told me something of your trip, but I'd like to hear your version of it," said Kari. "Did he really fancy Seregil, Alec?" Alec grinned. "I half fancied him myself, when he was all prettied up.

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?" "Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—" "Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skeptically. "Someone I used to be .

What kind of grad student do you take? "I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

SECRET #42 You may not have to look very far to find more than what you were searching for.

Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?

The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

To be a true explorer in science—to follow the unprejudiced lead of pure scientific inquiry—is to be unafraid to propose the unthinkable, and to prove friends, colleagues, and scientific paradigms wrong.

Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.

She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

It's Good to Ask the "What" Questions but Less Helpful to Ask "Why

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.

I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.

You'll never hear interesting stories if you don't ask questions. And there are interesting stories everywhere. Even the most boring person has one interesting story.

Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!' How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?

There are few better things in life than exploring with a dog and finding new places together.