Quotes About Curiosity

Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.

It's a long story. Do you want to hear a long story?

The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it's a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it's a kingdom. Her

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this—that he knows nothing yet.' "]·

Então, crianças, como o cérebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constrói para nós um mundo cheio de luz?

Anthony Doerr

Se pelo menos a vida fosse como um romance de Júlio Verne... e você pudesse passar as páginas para a frente, quando precisasse, para descobrir o que estava para acontecer.

Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.

Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could

Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.

What," he asked into the silence, "is her name?

To discover fossils, he told himself, was to reclaim answers to important questions.

I wouldn't trade the twenty-first century for any other. We have toilet paper and pasteurization and Novocain and Mexican avocados all winter long. And plenty of mysteries remain: what causes premature labor, or what exactly the universe is made of. The biology of deep oceans, the nature of gravity, the reason we sleep, the mechanisms of migration; thousands of questions still await answers.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. "The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

We do not know what or how to teach children, because we do not know what a child is, and we do not know what a child is, because we do not know what man is -- and Him from whom and for whom man is.

that overeager reporters would somehow

Euphrosyne leant forward, clasping her hands, and said to me: 'Have you killed him?' The question vexed me. It would have been civil to accompany it, at all events, with an inquiry as to my own health.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.