Quotes About Curiosity

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what's going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.

When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

People want to see other's secrets and get a peek into their lives.

I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.