Quotes About Curiosity

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

You never can tell with bees.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don't know.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?