Quotes About Curiosity

Jack and Annie went quietly down the stairs. Then they slipped out the door into the chilly, damp night.

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The little dog scampered after them. They passed the round windows of different rooms on the ship. Jack looked through them as they went by.

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and Annie were walking home from the library. The path went right by the Frog Creek woods. Jack sighed. "We looked this morning," he said.

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

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Peanut!" cried Annie. Jack patted

Africa?" said Jack. "Oh, man, I've always wanted to go there." He opened the book. He and Annie stared at a picture. It showed hordes of zebras, tall giraffes, big animals with horns, and tiny, deerlike creatures.

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available.

Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. What use, he replied, is a newborn baby?

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

You may be thinking, Wow, that Mary Roach has her head up her ass. To which I say: Only briefly, and with the utmost respect.

On top of its other charms, the maggot breathes through its ass. It

It tastes like water spiked with strange.

Please beware, came his reply, There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics.

I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it.

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

I remember watching Morin walk away from me, the endearing gait and the butt that got lubed for science, and thinking, 'Oh my god, they're just people.

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute. Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, What a sight to behold!

What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.

If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse - and this I truly don't recommend - you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound. Rice Krispies. Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.