Quotes About Curiosity

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

Nel, after throwing a stone onto a sloping bank watching the stone rolling said, 'Look at the stone. It's afraid of the grass

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

original topics of research that those who stay cloistered in their ivory towers could never imagine.

There was a world out there, if only he had the courage to go and look for it.

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.

Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity - and a touch of wistfulness - the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates. In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring "Home" to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.

Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life - written perfectly and truthfully by an omniscient author? ... how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope and without surprise?

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Peut-être, le temps passant, la question première : « D'où ça vient les enfants ? » laisse-t-elle la place à celle-ci : « D'où ça nous vient, nos pensées ? »

Cet échange d'inconnu à inconnu se révélait infiniment plus riche que l'habituel commerce entre gens qui savaient déjà tout les uns des autres.