Quotes About Curiosity

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.

There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has greater cause to be that way. It's a response to a world that is always using a tin-opener on them to see what they have inside, just in case it ought to be replaced with a more useful type of tinned foodstuff.

Die Ansicht, dass Kinder offen sind, dass ihr inneres Wesen sozusagen pur aus ihnen heraussickert, ist weit verbreitet. Das ist falsch. Niemand hält sich bedeckter als ein Kind, niemand muss es so sehr sein. Als Antwort auf eine Welt, die dauernd mit dem Büchsenöffner ankommt, um nachzuschauen, was es in sich hat, ob es nicht vielleicht gegen eine gängigere Konserve eingetauscht werden sollte.

There's a plan the school.... So many things happen, you're never given any explanation. We are going to study it scientifically, like in a laboratory.

Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two

I can't imagine that anything like the Christian image of hell actually exists. But lately I've been wondering about the ancient Greenlandic realm of the dead. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

In all living creatures, fear and curiosity are closely related in the brain.

De satte kurs mot kyrkan, arm i arm. En lång fräknig kvinna, i vars underliv säd från tre olika män förgäves försökte hålla sams. Och en gaselliknande flicka med en funktionspromille på 1,2 som höll sig upprätt och någorlunda klar enbart på grund av väninnans stöd, B-vitaminerna och sin nyfikenhet.

Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

One thing we are learning to be sure of: life does not get less strange.

More than that, he thought she had a certain bravery he rarely encountered and couldn't define: it was something to do with a willingness to look beyond the surface of things, into their heart, and he wondered if that was an essential part of being an artist. It was more than just curiosity, it seemed to him she was restless for truth somehow.

One tentacled candelabra

No technical skill is worth more than knowing how to select exciting research projects. Regrettably, this vital ability is almost never taught.

Mathematics should be fun.

He had been looking forward to a further insight into the life of this woman he was so deeply in love with and still knew so little about.

Religion asks why. Science asks how.

Curiosity is an impure thought

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”

And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”