Quotes About Curiosity

Obviously, in different circumstances, I definitely related to this idea of feeling claustrophobic and wanting to discover things for yourself. I think that's something that all young people can relate to.

It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

I don't know much about history.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.

Joshua Lederberg

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

I didn't know much about hockey.

When I was little, I thought that everyone wanted to hold me as a baby because I was this thing of fascination. But rather than this thing that wasn't quite right, I just felt that my difference was something that was probably very exotic.

I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

I'm a video store guy. I like thumbing through things and holding them.

I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.