Quotes About Curiosity

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

A good question has many answers.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.