Quotes About Curiosity

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else.

They said he used to cackle and bark in his crib after dark. They said he walked at two months and sat staring at the moon whenever it shone. Those were things that people said. His parents were always worried about him. An only child, they noticed his flaws quickly. They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare.

as Huxley put it-'to sit down before fact as a little child—be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.

supuesto umbral de la conciencia. Ahí es donde radica la fascinación

The pheasants looked around in bobhead curiosity. Your pigeon cousins walk in freedom. You sit in the cage in glorious Technicolor.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody

I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.

If you can't have fun with Science, what good is it? -Einstein

They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are mystified by time. Both are forever starting out.

Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering.

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don't even know what the experiment is testing.

It's amazing how crazy things become, once you start looking at them.

The world had become something no schoolchild should be allowed to discover.

What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they're seeing.

How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

No strangeness stranger than the strangeness of living things.

I read then, everything I could lay hands on. Reading was my virgin continent. I read instantly upon awakening, and was still at it well past the hour that consciousness shut down. I read for nothing, for a pleasure difficult to describe and impossible afterward to recover.

Do not invent anything; simply discover it.

They can't believe a kid worked for months on an original idea, for no reason at all except the pleasure of looking until you see something.

I let the class out, ten minutes early. My students would have to figure out the rest of the origin of life on their own.

How life managed to add imagination to all the other tricks in its chemistry set is a mystery

Whole new rooms open up in Adam's brain, ready to be furnished.

He loved the benevolence that the stacks held out, their map of the known world. He loved the all-you-can-eat buffet of borrowing. He loved the lending histories stamped into the front of each book, the record of strangers who checked them out before him. The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

The Golden Guide to Pond Life, The Golden Guide to Stars, to Rocks and Minerals, to Reptiles and Amphibians: humans are almost beside the point.