Quotes About Curiosity

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.

You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.

Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.

I dabble in everything... it's very therapeutic.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.