Quotes About Curiosity

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

Szpindel's eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

That's like a chimp asking why those hairless apes aren't slinging bigger feces than everyone else, if they're so damned clever.

Is that my foot? Silly me, it's a starfish

Lord St Ervan, why is it that I am never aware of you until you speak to me?" "I make sure that you are not, for fear you will run away before I can have two words with you," he saidwryly.

Selma'n?n bana verdi?i en kuvvetli his,merak ve kin oldu. Biraz da korku, fakat arzu de?il.

I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know 'bout these Strangers Like Me Tell me more, please show me Something's familiar 'bout these Strangers Like Me

Marshmallow guns (or other similarly useless weapons) are actually fairly common accessories in your typical spark laboratory. No one knows why. They just sort of accumulate.

Know what happened, wonder what happened or ignore what happened and i would not want to be 2 or 3

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.

with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power

To Richard, in a sense, Mike was a god. He listened to his older cousin's war stories of rape and killing wide-eyed, fascinated beyond normal curiosity. The photos had a profound effect on Richard. They aroused him sexually in a way far more intense than the girlie magazines his brothers had.

Richard wanted to write a letter to Ted Bundy, on Florida's death row, and he asked Doreen to get Bundy's prison number and address. He had, he said, some things he wanted to ask Ted about.

Scientists must be able to answer the question "What would convince me I am wrong?" If they can't, it's a sign they have grown too attached to their beliefs.

Not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover.

Need for cognition" is the psychological term for the tendency to engage in and enjoy hard mental slogs. [...] superforecasters score high in need-for-cognition tests.

What qualifies as a good question? It's one that gets us thinking about something worth thinking about. So one way to identify a good question is what I call the smack-the-forehead test: when you read the question after time has passed, you smack your forehead and say, "If only I had thought of that before!

now that many schools receive funding based on test results, teachers teach for those outcomes, not for curiosity or critical thinking, nor for learning nonspecific principals or values. Such training to focus on fact memorization lowers the intellectual level of the teachers themselves, not just their bored students.

She clearly had the gift. Partly, the gift was just plain, old-fashioned love. Partly, it was a questioning intelligence. Real teachers had a kind of longing, a searching excitement of soul. They wanted to find out things. They didn't settle for the old, easy answers. They lived in their minds more than in the world.