Quotes About Curiosity

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.

From inside our turn-of-the-century Italianate home, I watched them standing out on the sidewalk or peering from their car windows. I always wondered what they were looking for. Did they imagine life in the old homes was like a life they dreamed of and didn't have? Did they think the traces of fading graciousness and entitlement that emanated from the aging plaster and hardwood floors endowed the current occupants with lives that were more meaningful than their own?

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

There were little velvet handcuffs and small whips involved. I'm not opposed to little velvet handcuffs and small whips in principle, you understand. At least, I don't think I am. I haven't actually tried any of those things. But somehow in that particular context they did not appeal.

Cruz and Jeff looked at her. She did not appear to notice. Her attention was on the cavern.

I don't know a lot about

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Sa curiosité le pousse quand même à visiter le zoo de Berne où Émile se réjouit de voir enfin des singes, espèce qui n'a pas encore droit de séjour en Tchécoslovaquie. Mais les singes ont l'air méchants, aigris, amers, perpétuellement vexés d'avoir raté l'humanité d'un quart de poil. Ça les obsède à l'évidence, ils ne pensent qu'à ça. Ils seraient prêts à le faire payer.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

She wanted to go on food tours of the Lower East Side, guided history walks in Tribeca, gospel brunches in Harlem, all of those things native (or at least "established") New Yorkers tended to turn up their noses at, preferring to maintain a smug ignorance about their city.

I wondered how it was that a newspaper that had laid off or bought out so many people had the wherewithal to give me a raise and throw me a party at an expensive restaurant. I wanted to ask, but I decided that would sound both rude and ungrateful. So for once in my life, I forced myself to swallow my curiosity.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Very often people come up with spiritual beliefs to answer questions. Why did my child get sick? Why did the rain come and flood the river? People don't--and still don't--have those answers, so we try to come up with reasons.

I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.

A scholar knows no boredom.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.