Quotes About Curiosity

us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know.

One of my favorites is "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.

that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

Really tapping into our inner vision and inner child might not make us happier or better adjusted, but it might make us appreciate just how smart we really are.

RIDLEY Science writer; founding chairman, International Centre for Life; author, The Rational Optimist

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.

To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!

I have explored and have voluntarily entered into domains forbidden by a large fraction of those in our culture who are not curious, are not explorative and are not mentally equipped to enter these domains.

Is ignorance so hard to bear, then? There is so very much in life we do not know … .

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don't ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight (October), the eleventh called the ninth (November), the twelfth called the tenth (December)?

Nuda plus uwaga = zaczyna by? ciekawie.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.