Quotes About Curiosity

What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.

After all, as omnivores, we were not born knowing what to eat. We all had to learn it, every one of us, as children sitting expectantly, waiting to be fed.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

What are those?" I asked, pointing up. "Those are ceiling," Varya said. "And here—sink. See—only turn so, and ffft! water!

As a former student put it: "In a liberry it's hard to avoid reading." When

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible

When she was reading she wasn't the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn't the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants' backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.

I am tired of these affairs, where no one asks what books I've read, only a handful of relatives are interested in how I'm advancing at my job, and everyone quizzes me about my dating life.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

You shouldn't make jokes about these things," she said. "Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though,

Something round and dirty and white was resting near my foot. It was a skull. I picked it up. 'Is that you, Nicholas?' I asked. 'Put that down, Peter,' said Nightingale. 'You don't know where it's been.

Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though," I said.

What's it a charm for?' she asked. The man thought about this for a moment. 'It's your basic all-enveloping protection charm,' he said, his hands describing a cupped circle in the air. 'For protection against...' 'Envelopes?' said Abigail.

Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts 'A Shadow Passes' (1919)

Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked. "Because my face fell off," said Lesley. Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

There's more to life than just London,' said Nightingale. 'People keep saying that,' I said. 'But I've never actually seen any proof.

the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop.