Quotes About Curiosity

The baby girl was quite still except for her cheeks and lips sucking at her finger, and a rhythmical curving and straightening of her toes, as if some current of thick air were passing over them.

Doubt is crucial to science in the version we call curiosity or healthy scepticism, it drives science forward – but it also makes science vulnerable to misrepresentation, because it is easy to take uncertainties out of context and create the impression that everything is unresolved. This was the tobacco industry's key insight: that you could use normal scientific uncertainty to undermine the status of actual scientific knowledge.

Gördü?üm ve ö?rendi?im her yeni ?ey beni çok mutlu ediyordu. Sanki yepyeni bir dünyaya, bilim dünyas?na, ad?m atm??t?m ve bu dünyay? art?k özgürce ke?fedebilme olana??na sahiptim.

tantalizing possibilities. She hesitated, feeling trapped by a combination of her own desire to try everything, and a

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

What did he do to make you leave?" she asks. "If you don't mind me prying." "He married me," I say softly.

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

You don't need to visit a foreign country or hike a desert canyon or go out on a cloudless, moonless night and get drunk on star champagne.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.

I)n reading . . . stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

How to generate writing ideas, things to write about? Whatever's in front of you is a good beginning. Then move out into all streets. You can go anyplace. Tell me everything you know. Don't worry if what you know you can't prove or haven't studied.

can't take myself too seriously when I open

There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

The terrible thing about public school is they take young children who are natural poets and storytellers and have them read literature and then step away from it and talk "about it".

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Always there is something more to know

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.