Quotes About Curiosity

This here is Juan Sweeting, my second," Michael said. "Goes by Ceps." They shook, the man greeting him with a grunt. "How'd you get the name Ceps?" Peter asked. "I haven't heard that before." The man curled his arms, popping a pair of biceps like two large grapefruits.

Whoever thinks so doesn't understand the first thing about him. He went out there because he just couldn't stand not knowing, not for one more minute of his life.

We are neither the pawns of devils, nor the enemies of virtue. We are simply curious, pragmatic, and rebellious -- too curious to be timid, too defiant for morality, and too pragmatic to wreck shit "just because.

Sir William frowned. "Where did you get that jacket?" he asked. Immediately he shook his head and waved his hand dismissively. "No, don't tell me. I've a feeling I don't want to know. Some washing line or laundry basket between here and Marylebone, no doubt.

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.

Then suddenly, bizarrely, the other man – the one in the dark leather jacket – grinned like an amused schoolboy. 'Hel o,' he said brightly.

Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring'.

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

Jacob: "Let her stare." Terra: "What?" Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries - as if the words are synonymous with boredom or timidity. But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them?

If this were simply a story about the past, it would be appropriate to write, at the conclusion of Acts 28 as at the conclusion of a film, "The End." But since the story is unfinished, it is more appropriate to conclude it with, "RSVP," like an invitation that awaits a response. This is what Luke demands from us: not satisfied curiosity about the past, but a response here and now. RSVP!

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

I]t's very difficult to ask questions of nature that aren't somehow already colored by our very human preconceptions. Even the simplest, most objective, questions may play into preexisting prejudices.

Did you ever hear of a place called Sphoe?

So, being Artavasdus, instead of diving for cover and shitting himself like any normal human being, or me, he stood there, watched carefully and took notes.

You know, a lot of strange things happen in this world.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

By the age of twelve, he was using the family typewriter to correspond with a number of well-known local geologists about the rock formations he had studied in Central Park. Not aware of his youth, one of these correspondents nominated Robert for membership in the New York Mineralogical Club, and soon thereafter a letter arrived inviting him to deliver a lecture before the club.

My two great loves are physics and New Mexico. It's a pity they can't be combined.

Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.

Students felt free to interrupt Oppie with a question. "He generally would answer patiently," Geurjoy said, "unless the question was manifestly stupid, in which event his response was likely to be quite caustic.

I need physics more than friends," he confessed to Frank in the autumn of 1929.

The renowned Danish physicist then asked politely, "How is it going?" Robert replied bluntly, "I'm in difficulties." Bohr asked, "Are the difficulties mathematical or physical?" When Robert replied, "I don't know," Bohr said, "That's bad." Bohr