Quotes About Curiosity

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Leave no stone unturned.

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do. - Dr. Barbara McClintock

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search.

She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot

What is a canty day, Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh.

What is adolescence without trash?

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?

What is a 'canty day,' Dennis?" "I've never troubled to ask. Something like Hogmanay, I expect." "What is that?" "People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow." "Oh.

I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I was a man of Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

There was one insect which buzzed in a particular manner. Listen, said Mr Bain one day, that is most interesting. It is what we call the 'six o'clock beetle', because he always makes that noise at exactly six o'clock. But it is now quarter past four. Yes, that is what is so interesting. At one time and another in the country I heard the six o'clock beetle at every hour of the day and night.

Amory selected a blade of grass and nibbled at it scientifically.

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

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.