Quotes About Curiosity

Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything.

I'd like to see the whole world.

From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then selling them to other kids, learning many languages.

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'