Quotes About Curiosity

I don't like the word atheist because to me it mirrors the certainty of religion. I preach the gospel of I don't know.

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Scientific Progress goes boink?

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

I wonder where we go when we die?" "…Pittsburgh?" "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

Paul Gauguin asked, whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going? Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink COW milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Watcha doin'?" "Looking for frogs." "How come?" "I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

Calvin: I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled! Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant? Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy, let's go exploring!

The best proof of extraterrestrial intelligence is that they haven't contacted us.