Quotes About Curiosity

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Wer erst handelt, wenn er eine Antwort hat, wird nie eine finden.

You can't ban books, people will find them

You cannot ban books. People can find them".

to appreciate the wonder of the universe, one must first remain alive.

He found rabbit-fur-lined underpants

The Now Habit is based on the fact that somewhere in your life there are leisure activities and forms of work that you choose to do without hesitation [...] When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.

When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Research is creating new knowledge.

People love conspiracy theories.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes

As the train rolled through the countryside, so lush and green, and into the sprawling suburbs of south London, I stared around at all the strangeness: the narrow little "terraced" houses all in rows of brick and chimneypots, the tiny back gardens with clotheslines and garden sheds, the little cars all on the wrong side of the road — it was all so delightfully foreign, and exotic. My first lesson that the rest of the world really was more different than I knew or imagined.

Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less ignorant. Doctors do not generally concern themselves with health; they concentrate on sickness. And lawyers don't think too much about justice; they think about cases of injustice. Using this model in teaching would imply identifying and understanding various forms of ignorance and working to eliminate as many of them as we can.