Quotes About Curiosity

First, you had to get a badger drunk on wine filtered through camphor and blended with a compound of gold, seed pearls, and coral.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

We enjoy doing science; why shouldn't we enjoy reading it?

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Quindi esistono davvero creature che ti mangiano?» «Non in questo ripostiglio» rispose sua madre, con inquietante evasività.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.

I'd been everything but ordinary and I wanted to know what that felt like before they dump me into the grave.

To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .

Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Talk to a Dutch journalist for an hour. He has 38 questions.

My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a view shared by my wife.

We talk for maybe ten minutes, perfunctory talk in a way that we're never really perfunctory, all skirting the question of us, and I begin to wonder if she had caller ID whether she'd picked up at all.

It's the drunkenness of all the new things that can be.

This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

In the foyer of their building they displayed a large globe, one of the few in Philadelphia. On his way home from school each day, Hugh stopped in the office, spinning the globe on its axis, his fingers exploring the oceans and mountains of the world.