Quotes About Curiosity

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.

I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

I love chess very much. I love the game, the challenges. I could motivate myself as I was curious about how to improve every game. In chess, it's very clear that if you make a mistake you are punished. If you play well, you win.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to go off and do other things purely because it was out there, you know. I'm kind of glad that I did and that I didn't just stick with one thing.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

I am a person who keeps doing something or the other, pursuing one interest after another.