Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing -- when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.