Quotes About Curiosity

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.