Quotes About Curiosity

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.

If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…" Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.

. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.