Quotes About Curiosity

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.

Few people here have any need of novels

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

and he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Ibland sätter jag händerna mot väggen och försöker föreställa mig hur det är utanför. Jag tänker att det kanske kan gå att uppfatta någonting genom händernas beröring med väggen. Sådant som vindriktning, kyla, fukt, platsen du är på, vattnets porlande floden. Men det går aldrig. Väggen är bara en vägg. Det finns ingenting bakom den, den är inte sammankopplad med någonting.

Varför rymde du inte? Hon hade ju kunnat hjälpa dig härifrån. Då hade du kunnat bli fri", sa han och rörde vid min haka. "Men det gjorde du inte. Du stannade kvar här. Varför det?" Han frågade mig envist om orsaken. Han borde ju veta mycket väl att en människa som har förlorat orden inte kan förklara några orsaker. Vad var det då han krävde av mig? Jag förblev bara alldeles stel.

To me, the appeal of prime numbers had something to do with the fact that you could never predict when one would appear. They seemed to be scattered along the number line at any place that took their fancy.

and I found myself unable to resist turning around to see whether my footsteps were following me as I made my way across the field of white.

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

Sometimes other people's skulls look transparent. At such moments I fall in love.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

if one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.

That's the trouble," Chambers replied. "You have allowed part of your brain to stagnate for want of use." Within a few minutes, Oswald had scribbled out a list of more than fifty books—philosophical

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

human behavior being inexplicable to rational felines,

Isn't it curious how, very occasionally, we have a strong and inexplicable feeling about a complete stranger? Most of the time, someone we don't know is just someone we don't know. Perhaps we form an impression of them on account of how they dress, speak, or move. We usually have no expectation, no feeling—good or bad—when we first encounter a new person.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or them..?

We sat perfectly still in the dim light as the wolf approached closer, head cocked, mouth closed, and ears semi-erect. With these signs of both curiosity and trepidation, it took a step forward and then backed off a ways, then took a few steps forward again. It lifted its nose and sniffed intently, and finally stopped at about eight feet away. For a moment all three of us were perfectly still, wondering what was going to happen next.

They both stared at the microscope as if it might hop off the bench and chase them around the room.