Quotes About Curiosity

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

Growing up, as a kid, I loved to read. I liked to read books that were above my range. I always tried to aim higher and read difficult books.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

I feel like I've always been drawn to a very diverse range of music and I've always enjoyed experimenting, so I'm not quite sure where exactly my music will go.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

I'm actually not fussy. I enjoy getting into it and talking about anything, really. It feels good.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

If you look back as far as the first explorers, they all took with them the latest gadget.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.