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Quotes About Curiosity

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
~ Kim Wright
Technology & Science is what you make it!!!
~ TechnoGeekZone
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
~ Vint Cerf
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
~ Ellen Hopkins, Crank
Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.
~ Brad Jensen
I spread my arms. "In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks.
~ Jen Wylie, Tales of Ever
She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.
~ Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days
As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.
~ Magenta Periwinkle
Never Kill your What Ifs, But first be Grateful for What Is.
~ Drishti Bablani
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
~ Jean Piaget
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
~ Isaac Newton
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
~ Jean Piaget
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
~ Bernard Moitessier
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
~ Seymour Papert
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
~ Thomas More
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
~ Joseph Cornell
An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.
~ Magda Gerber
What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.
~ Magda Gerber
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
~ Henri Matisse
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.
~ Carl Orff
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
~ Michel de Montaigne