Quotes About Curiosity

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

My mind rebels at stagnation.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, and old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

Truth is stranger than fiction

The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of human experience this lonely woman had strayed into.

beating the dead animals in the dissecting room with a stick." "Beating them with a stick!" "Yes, to see whether bruises could be made after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "But he is not a medical student?" "No. I have no idea what he wants to do with his studies. But here

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. "It is simplicity itself

La casualidad ha puesto en nuestro camino un problema de lo más curioso y extravagante, y su solución es nuestra recompensa

straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.

My mind, he said, rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.

You can go anywhere in the whole world you want to go in a book.