Quotes About Curiosity

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Tommy and his little playmates don't regard being young as just one of those things that are likely to happen to anybody. They make a business of it. And

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

El aburrimiento se cura con curiosidad. La curiosidad no se cura con nada.

Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.

La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

So this is it, said Arthur, We are going to die. Yes, said Ford, except... no! Wait a minute! He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. What's this switch? he cried. What? Where? cried Arthur, twisting round. No, I was only fooling, said Ford, we are going to die after all.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

What's up? [asked Ford.] I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.

Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That's cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.

Who is this god person anyway?

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.