Quotes About Curiosity

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

No, I'm talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought diseases were caused by an imbalance in the humors. A century ago, visiting the moon was the stuff of fantasists. There are always things we don't know yet, and they always look like superstition until we understand.

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked." -- Brilliance, 2013

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked.

Seventy-five thousand?

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart," Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, "and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people."9

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!

Don't grow up, Urchin, whatever you do. Definitely a bad idea.

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.