Quotes About Curiosity

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That's the reward, really.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.

I pretended to be dead in front of a pig once, because I heard that they snuffle you, they try and wake you up, to check if you really are dead. And if you are dead, they eat you, but they like having a little prod first.

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.