Quotes About Curiosity

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

I read about the history of England, of Manchester. I wanted to know how people here live, their interests.

I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

I personally am going to look for stuff that interests me and either has very little to do or has the right thing to do with my ethnicity.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'