Quotes About Curiosity

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination.

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

Wondering is a positive madness.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.