Quotes About Curiosity

I'm hungry to learn, so I always have my big ears open fully, ready to learn every single minute when I play.

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

I'm someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I'm someone who asks 'why sir?' not a 'yes sir.'

My brother said 'I want to start acting,' and me and my sister just said, 'Oh we'll try it, we'll see.' It was just one of those things - we were just like, 'Oh, we'll see what happens.'

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'

I've always had a good imagination. If I saw a sitcom, and everything was made out of cheese, I wouldn't go 'What?' I wouldn't get angry. I'd think, 'Right, OK, all cheese? Amazing.'

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.

I read a lot of astronomy magazines, and go to a lot of astronomy sites, and physics sites. I love reading about quantum computation and quantum physics. I don't understand it all, but I love reading it over and over again so that I think I have some idea of what they're talking about.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Where I'm from, there's really not a whole lot going on... Because everyone is in the same situation, no one really sees it as an issue. I just knew it was a big world out there, and I wanted to experience it.

For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.