Quotes About Curiosity

The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated

Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for people living in the first world, has arisen from the fruits of such research, including all the electric power that drives almost every device we use. Two

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.

We crossed the Avenue Bosquet against the light and then we made an arbitrary left into the Rue Jean Nicot. Joe stopped at a tabac and bought cigarettes. I would have smiled if I had been able to. The street was named after the guy who discovered nicotine.

Reacher] knew people with houses. He had talked to them, with the same kind of detached interest he would talk to a person who kept snakes as pets or entered ballroom dancing competitions.

Reacher said, What have we missed ? Ratcliffe said, A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ? I saw one once.

They're scientists at heart, and scientists generally retain a good-faith interest in facts and the truth. Or at least they retain some kind of innate curiosity. All of which was good, because this guy's attitude was going to be crucial. He could stay out of our way, or he could sell us out with a single phone call.

Her laugh was great. I wanted to look at her nameplate over her shirt pocket. But I didn't want her to think I was looking at her breasts. I remembered them resting on the edge of the table when she took my photograph. I looked. Nice breasts. Her name was Roscoe. She glanced around quickly and moved closer to the bars. I sipped coffee.

How long was this one up there?' I said. 'Two or three days

Too many ifs, Reacher thought. And too few answers.

Text messaging," Pauling said. "What's that?" "You can send written words by cell phone." "When did that start?" "Years ago." "OK," Reacher said. "Live and learn.

OK,' Duffy said. 'So what have we got?' We had rugs. The door rattled upward and daylight

burglary for?

It's like walking out of a movie. Being made to walk out of a movie that you're really enjoying. That's what worried me about it. I would never know how it turned out.

Eventually he was led to a small hot room. The air was full of flies, moving slowly. Two men sat on pillows, both bearded, one short and fat, the other tall and lean. Both were in plain white robes and plain white turbans. The

whole square area from behind the secretary's head. She was at her

No specimen jars. No weird stuff pickled in formaldehyde.

Perhaps he would glance down and see that he was doing 76 miles an hour, and he would see that 76 squared was 5,776, which ended in 76, where it started, which made 76 an automorphic number, one of only two below 100, the other being 25, whose square was 625, whose square was 390,625, which

room number?