Quotes About Curiosity

The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Me, I'm a lesbian: I find women fascinating.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly interesting. But I'm always picking around and finding different things.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!