Quotes About Curiosity

It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.

This is the deep reason secular people cherish scientific truth: not in order to satisfy their curiosity, but in order to know how best to reduce the suffering in the world.

humans are similar to other domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful.

I teach the kids history, or quantum physics, or art – but above all I try to teach them to think for themselves.

Consider Google. Google wants to reach a point where we can ask it anything and get the best answer in the world. What

Por desgracia, enseñar a los chicos a aceptar lo desconocido y a mantener su equilibrio mental es muchísimo más difícil que enseñarles una ecuación de física o las causas de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

babies and children

We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk, but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious and less resourceful. We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximise the human potential. Indeed we have no idea what the full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. (page 50)

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot questions.

the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.

Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.

His curiosity and love of gossip, albeit with an academic slant, made even the loudmouthed women in the bazaar look like rank amateurs.

Parc? era vorba s? nu-?i mai pui întreb?ri, b?iatule cu p?rul ciufulit? — N-a? fi om, dac? nu mi-a? pune întreb?ri...

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

Children are so innocent and full of life. They have no expectations, no misgivings and thus, no frustration.

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

For another thing, there's so much they don't know. And not knowing things makes them know lots of other things grownups can't know. That sounds confusing and it is. But look at it this way. Every time you teach a kid something, you teach him a hundred things that are impossible because that one thing is so. By the time we grow up, our world is so hedged around by impossibilities that it's a wonder we ever try anything new.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.