Quotes About Curiosity

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

You will know your path by the fun of it.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.