Quotes About Curiosity

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.