Quotes About Curiosity

That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next. Gray

His own cabinat of cuoriositie

Just go look. That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.

Zijn dit kaartjes voor de eerste klas?' vroeg Kady plotseling... 'En een reservering voor de duurste suite in het Savoy?' ... '... ze pakken het wel heel groots aan,' zei Jake behoedzaam... 'Er zijn vast camera's,' ging hij door... 'Nou, een heel kort reisje dan. Misschien valt het wel mee.

Museum of Jurassic Technology.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

Laat nog eens wat zien.' 'Pinder, hij is geen getrainde duikelaap die een dansje maakt voor een handvol nootjes.' Toch zag Jake hoe Marika probeerde haar eigen nieuwsgierig te verbergen. Hij zag ook dat haar groene ogen het licht weerkaatsten als smaragden. 'Ik kan jullie wel een paar dingen laten zien,' zei Jake. 'Dat hoeft niet,' zei Marika, maar ze fleurde helemaal op.

Pini Lupi... Pene Lope. - Jake

the pursuit of knowledge is never for naught. Each line drawn on a map gets us closer to understanding the world and our place in it.

Only Kowalski voiced a dissent. "C'mon, guys. Does that really sound like a place we want to go?

Books are keys that open many doors.

Oh... It's a thing.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

That's the beauty of the universe. There's always a new mystery.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Look now. It will never be more fascinating.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth.

the minibar cart, even church clocks tolling the hour, de Westertoren, Krijtberg, a dark edge to the clangor, an inwrought fairy-tale sense of doom. By day I sat on the foot of the bed straining to puzzle out the Dutch-language

No. I am rather curious to see what it is like. Besides, I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.

Ever since I'd started riding the train by myself I'd loved to go there alone and roam around until I got lost, wandering deeper and deeper in the maze of galleries until sometimes I found myself in forgotten halls of armor and porcelain that I'd never seen before (and, occasionally, was unable to find again).

Another trick—calculated to lure a different, more sophisticated customer—was to bury a piece in the back of the store, reverse the vacuum cleaner over it (instant antiquity!) and allow the nosy customer to ferret it out on his or her own—look

It does not to do be frightened of things about which you know nothing,' he said. 'You are like children. Afraid of the dark.