Quotes About Curiosity

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

I was a little bit of a precocious kid, in the sense I loved reading, and I loved health and - my dad being a doctor - I really wanted to learn more about how the body worked.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us.

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.