Quotes About Curiosity

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

I am happy that I will be able to drive again and I will also see Eddie Jordan again, as it's been some time since I had direct contact with him. I am really curious to see what it's like with the Jordan team and how they will react to me, what they want to tell me.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.