Quotes About Curiosity

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.

My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

I don't want to be definitive or the last word on anything.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Depending on what's happening in the world, what music is coming out, what city I'm in, I do some research on a place I'm going to, get a feel for it, and maybe do something that would be special for that city.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.