Quotes About Curiosity

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.