Quotes About Curiosity

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

than meets the eye! 79 Don't worry, Fearless Reader—he was framed and eventually demonstrated his innocence. 80 I don't want to tell them their jobs, but if I were an astronomer, I'd keep my eye on Planet X. I think it might be trouble. 81 Primarily because it

As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.

She stopped me cold when she said, 'What color is the wind?'

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

It was his fifth son and namesake, Sam, thirteen at the time of his father's death, who could lose himself in the shelves of books even to the detriment of his formal education.

sometimes it worked better to just do a thing and see what happened, rather than thinking it through to exhaustion.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Tell me, Mitch," said Bertrand, reading my thoughts, "is there anyone on this train that you do not want to fuck?" "I'm not crazy about the dowager.

Here was some mystery I would get to the bottom of. Not the bottom I'd been hoping for, but not a bad alternative.

"Would you like an adventure now.... or would you like to have your tea first?" Wendy said "tea first" quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude....

It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

Artists cannot be trained. One does not become an artist by acquiring certain skills or techniques, though one can use any number of skills and techniques in artistic activity. The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for surprise. Such a person cannot go to school to be an artist, but can only go to school as an artist.

Artists cannot be trained. One does not become an artist by acquiring certain skills or techniques, though one can use any number of skills and techniques in artistic activity. The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for surprise. Such a person cannot go to school to be an artist, but can only go to school as an artist. Therefore

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

It is better to explore an idea than to keep a polite silence.

Oh, I didn't look under the sheet!" he said quickly. "Ms. Gleason told us not to, remember?" I nodded. I remembered. It was starting to seem like I was the only one who did.

Mila was right. This case was fishy. In fact, it smelled like Sea World.

Kaz drifted off, lured by the thought of a book he hadn't yet met.

We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! It is our own.

On the contrary, to know that you are an individual not put here for some mysterious reason by some supernatural means, and that you are not protected by unknown powers or beings; to know that you are a product of millions of experiments in the evolutionary process and not the result of a seed thrown on this planet by extraterrestrials—that, to me, is very exciting.

She started reading novels to put herself in the way of secret lives.