Quotes About Curiosity

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I am not a scientist.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Science is always inquiring.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

I've always been interested in science fiction

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.