Quotes About Curiosity

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

But if you accept dreams, you also have to accept nightmares, and I know nightmares are bad things. And if dreams are so special, why is it that no person or company has ever tried to make a drug that leads to better dreaming? Sleeping pills, yes, but dreaming pills? Have scientists even asked that question?

Neal fished around in a bag, removed something and handed it to me. It was a forky thing, but with a round depression. "What the fuck is this?" "It's a spork.

The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are.

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My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

We planned to enter the ruins the following day. What would we find? I couldn't even begin to imagine it.

But I also know this anomaly is something you won't let drop until you get to the bottom of it.

Douglas Preston

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Denying the existence of things beyond our knowledge is as dangerous as promoting them.

Incidents of Travel

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The question failure asks is: what don't we know that we don't know?

Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston

Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, 'cabinet of curiosities'?" Nora wondered at the man's ability to pile on non sequiturs. "Wasn't it a kind of natural history collection?" "Precisely. It was the precursor to the natural history museum. Many

You see, what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our questioning. And what we are, of course, is a response to what we observe.