Quotes About Curiosity

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Children are all foreigners.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.

The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

curiosity and command attention, attracting us first by their beauty.

We're only afraid of or repulsed by what we don't understand.

Wonder generates enthusiasm, which is the highest state of character. It's what makes mere curiosity about nature grow into an all-consuming passion. The history of science is full of examples of enthusiasm. Every schoolchild knows the story of Archimedes, who stepped into his bath and realized that water displacement could be used to measure the volume of any object; he then took off running through the streets like a madman, yelling, "Eureka! I've found it!