Quotes About Curiosity

You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Science provides us with some of the most elegant, stimulating puzzles that life has to offer. It throws some of the most provocative ideas into our arenas of moral debate. Occasionally, it improves our lives. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means that you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Les idéaux ont de curieuses qualités, entre autres celle de se transformer brusquement en absurdité quand on s'essaie de s'y conformer strictement.

Ich bin immer in einem Mann-Mannesverhältnis zu den sogenannten großen Ideen gestanden; vielleicht auch zu den mit Recht so genannten: Ich glaube mich nicht zur Unterordnung geboren, sie haben mich gereizt, sie zu stürzen und andere an ihrer Stelle zu setzen. Ja, vielleicht bin ich gerade von dieser Eifersucht zur Wissenschaft geführt worden, deren Gesetze man in Gemeinschaft sucht und auch nicht für unverbrüchlich ansieht.

I longed to know the world's name.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know.

there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

For Harlan, to remind him of open windows, the currents of the Delaware River, quarters with two heads, and other pitfalls.

why not seek to learn more than to earn?

Shopping, asking questions, and analyzing deals is how I got my education.

If those stories do not expand their realities, I doubt if anything will.

When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself.

The applicant was taken aback by that question.

You want to know a little about a lot" was rich dad's suggestion.

You want to know a little about a lot" was

They don't do it to brag. They're interested in the subject.

Well, he had a funny look on his face at first

he never bothered to look them up.

They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something.