Quotes About Curiosity

part of what is needed is a theory not only of how we invent, but why we invent. Recall that Edison was inventing for the pure pleasure of inventing. He worked on many of his inventions, not to meet an unmet need, but just to see what happens and what's possible. The Systemizing Mechanism is what drives curiosity.

[Discoveries] are sent to you in strange ways. Grab them while you can. I'll take that as my scientific legacy.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Children of the night?' 'Believe me, they're down

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.

Herodotus is said to have remarked, 'Every year we send ships at great cost and danger as far as Africa, to ask "Who are you? What are your laws? What is your language?"' Why is it, he asked, 'they never send ships to ask us'?

I just want to keep learning.

Every wall was covered with shelves, packed tightly with books on every subject under the sun, and a few best unmentioned in polite company.

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Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.' 'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.

We are often sold a vision of the world as a dangerous and frightening place. In reality the world is friendly and astonishingly hospitable.

Saw you by the Dumpster, eating a pile of what appeared to be human vomit. You seemed like someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. Not sure if you're male or female, but either way I'd love to smell your genitals. Let me know if you're intrigued.

If you want to know the people around you," Stalin said, "find out what they read.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better?

The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

Quiero descubrir cómo puedo hacerla reír. Quiero saber cómo hacerla llorar. Quiero saber lo que se siente si me mira como si fuese su caballero de la brillante armadura. -Alex

Whoa, who was that?" "Madison Stone," Kiara mutters. "Introduce me to her." "Why?" Because I know it'll annoy the shit out of you.

Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. "Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?

What did you come here for? And where's Enrique?" "He, uh, left," I say nervously. "I think I scared him away." "You? I don't think so." "I showed him what I was wearing under my coat." Alex's eyebrows shoot up.