Quotes About Curiosity

Having sex in new locations can be exciting, like when Neil Armstrong fucked the moon.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

It turned out to be near impossible to stand in a library and not want to pull things from the shelves.

Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can't appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.

Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

To read, to seek, to know.

Where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

When you stay too long in one place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

And also, of course, there is the ultimate, all-important question: does it have a dog in it? (This book, by the way, does indeed have a dog in it, and this fact would very much excite a human but unfortunately does nothing for you.)

Well, maybe we should try not to understand so much, and accept some more.

I realise I would like to solve the mystery of her just as much as she wants to solve the mystery of me and she nestles a little into me and I put my arm around her. Right there. On the park bench. Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed.

It is so nice to be somewhere I don't know. To be somewhere new, when the world has felt so stale and familiar.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

It is another unsolved mystery in a world full of unsolved mysteries.Now stand up and walk out the way you came, and the moment that fresh air caresses your face, you will realize that that is what makes the world so beautiful. All those unsolved mysteries. And you won't ever want to interfere with that beauty again.

I click through her photos.