Quotes About Curiosity

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.