Quotes About Curiosity

No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king's jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

Mat sacudió con asombro la cabeza. «¿Cuánta gente hay en los tejados esta noche?» Sólo faltaba que se presentara Thom y se pusiera a tocar el arpa, o alguien preguntando las señas de una posada.

popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one

Why did you come up here, Sheriam Sedai?" For

She was young—no older than he was, perhaps—and tall for a woman, with black hair to her shoulders. A nose that just missed being too large and too bold, a generous mouth, high cheekbones, and dark, slightly tilted eyes. He could not quite decide whether she was beautiful or not. As soon as he looked down, she turned to address one of the serving women and did not glance at the stairs again, but he was sure he had been right. She had been staring at him.

As well ask what sort of animal ivory comes from, or what kind of plant grows silk. Unless that comes from an animal, too." "I

Cadsuane had learned long ago to stop questioning the odd penchants of people with too much free time.

He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.

It was the room where they

Laetoli hominins, but we will never be able to answer them all. They walked down a path

gaze. It had been a rhetorical question, and she was astounded

startedasking

Know a little about a lot.

Please ta meetcha, kid. I'm Aahz. Oz? No Relation. No relation to what? I asked, but he was examining the room again.

Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That's what makes it interesting.

He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person. He'd be a knowledge-motivated person.

That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.

May, will you please, kindly DIG it, he remembered one of them saying, and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

A man conducting a gee-whiz science show with fifty thousand dollars' worth of Frankenstein equipment is not doing anything scientific if he knows beforehand what the results of his efforts are going to be. A motorcycle mechanic, on the other hand, who honks the horn to see if the battery works is informally conducting a true scientific experiment. He is testing a hypothesis by putting the question to nature.

After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.

A very strong case can be made for the statement that science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.