Quotes About Curiosity

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.

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I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

We especially need imagination in science.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England