Quotes About Curiosity

One good question and one good answer are services to all. A sure sign of a troubled company is one where employees don't care enough to ask and, if that's the case, they'll never care enough to fully deploy their talent. Just as curiosity is an antidote to boredom and indifference, the informed are more likely to remain interested, engaged, and alive with purpose.

If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant...Fuck you.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

Captain Cook quickly got up on his feet again and strutted to the street ahead of Mr. Popper with many quick turns of his head and pleased comments on the new scene.

Science is not the result of dispassionate machines spitting out Truth; it involves passionate humans pursuing truth and fame and next week's paycheck, while satisfying curiosity at the same time.

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

Nauki nigdy do??". Je?li masz wra?enie, ?e wiesz ju? wszystko, to jest oczywi?cie sygna?, ?e czego? nie wiesz.

When people start asking good questions, they make good pictures inside their heads. If you make good pictures, you will get good feelings. Then life becomes something that you feel more enthusiasm for.

Turn frustration into fascination.

Some desire to know merely for the sake of knowing, and that is shameful curiosity. Some desire to know that they may sell their knowledge, and that too is shameful. Some desire to know for reputation's sake, and that is shameful vanity. But there are some who desire to know that they may edify others, and that is praiseworthy; and there are some who desire to know that they themselves may be edified, and that is wise.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

I wrote on the envelope that it was not to be opened until the following day but then gave it to a boy who I knew was far too nosy not to open it immediately.

Todos los dias se aprende algo nuevo

no estoy seguro; ¿tú qué piensas?".

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.