Quotes About Curiosity

For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Get off the beaten path... If you want to find those mom-and-pop joints, those funky little places, just ask around.

I enjoy seeing new places.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to study the planes parked there.

Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.' That's because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.