Quotes About Curiosity

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it

What's a sesame seed grow into? I don't know we never give them a chance, what the fu.. is a sesame?! It's a street... It's a way to open sh.....

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

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

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

They say that life is too short, I just wonder who took the measurements.

Want to make a good first impression on a guy? Ask questions about him, seem interested, listen, giggle and swallow.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.

If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it.

My friend has a baby, I am recording all the noises he makes so I can later ask him what he meant.

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.