Quotes About Curiosity

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.