Quotes About Curiosity

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

I am entirely well," said Eldric, "which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don't care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

My, my," said Eldric. "You are full of surprises.

Excellent fistibus," said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars. "There's no fortune to be read in that palm," I said, but of course he wanted to know about it; of course he'd been dying to ask since we first met. "Do you want the version of the story in which I'm a hero, or do you want the true version?" "Both," said Eldric. "Greedy!" I said.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

But those stories inspire observations and experiments that do help us sort out what's going on. The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

Harry Harlow, a well-known American primatologist, was an early critic of the hunger reduction model. He argued that intelligent animals learn mostly through curiosity and free exploration, both of which are likely killed by a narrow fixation on food. He poked fun at the Skinner box, seeing it as a splendid instrument to demonstrate the effectiveness of food rewards but not to study complex behavior.

Young female primates are as infant-obsessed as girls, whereas male interest in infants reflects an almost technical curiosity rather than a nurturing tendency. Young male chimpanzees often carry babies in an awkward manner without letting them cling to their bodies as ape babies love to do. I have watched in horror as young males inspect a small infant by stretching its limbs to the limit, sticking their big fingers down its throat, or making it the object of a tussle with a male peer.

The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

we must employ tactics that allow us to learn as many things as possible without getting stuck in a particular way of thinking about those things.

All of this suggests that it makes sense to spend significant amounts of time reading and drawing, learning and experimenting, without guidance from instructors, peers, and experts.

Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!

My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a man who questions!" - Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Das Einmaleins ist mir bis auf diese Stunde nicht geläufig.

Socrates "was asked why seawater had become salty. He replied: If you can indicate to me the use that will come to you from knowing the answer to this question, I shall give you the reason." And Diogenes, "seeing a youth with a lamp, said to him: Do you know where this - fire comes from? The youth replied: If you can tell me where it goes to, I shall tell you where it comes from, thus effectively silencing Diogenes, something nobody else had been able to do.

Saying, I do not know,' constitutes one half of knowledge" is both a Prophetical tradition and a saying found in Graeco-Arabic wisdom literature. The phrase most widely recommended for use was lâ adrî "I do not know." Aristotle was described as saying that he was so fond of using it that he used it also in cases where he possessed the required knowledge.

A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has become ignorant.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.