Quotes About Curiosity

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

One of the greatest faults in modern education is overstructuring, which does not allow for play at every point in the educational process. -Edward T. Hall

Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.

All of which is to the purpose that I have travelled more than most, by means that provoke looks of askance at the merest telling of them,

In more than one case I saw a glockenspiel fully half the length again of the bandsman carrying it – although the particular offensive capabilities of such an instrument were at that time well nigh impossible to guess. For

cam kept watching the woman.Then she whispered to Eric "that woman is hiding something.Shes wearing dark glasses and it isnt sunny out.Shes wearing a raincoat and its not raining.Theres sonthing in that bagthat shouldnt be there.Lets follow her .

David A. Adler

the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

has a square head. It reminds Peter of the square watermelons they grow in North Africa. They grow them in wooden crates so that as the fruit stretches out during growth it forms the shape of its container. He wonders whether Mathers was grown in a wooden crate.

Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

know anything about, and so far, the

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don't know about and don't understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.

To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.

I am willing to taste any drink once.