Quotes About Curiosity

El autor anónimo de estos versos no buscaba una solución para el ateísmo, ni la clave del universo; estaba simplemente pasándoselo bien.

It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science.

It is really this that makes death so hard — curiosity unsatisfied.

Sin duda, es eso lo que hace de la muerte algo tan duro: la curiosidad insatisfecha

I always concluded that lonely or not it was still free from the curse of boredom.

It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science. The problem of classification alone must continue to be very discouraging.

Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

discover insights into these and other questions. Until then, let's allow God to use our curiosity to keep us committed to our excursion

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.