Quotes About Curiosity

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

We passed a sign for Boring, Oregon. We never went there, but I was positively enchanted with the idea that there was a town called Boring. 'Gravity Falls' is partially from what I imagine Boring might be like. Or maybe the opposite of Boring, Oregon, would be 'Gravity Falls.'

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.