Quotes About Curiosity

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all.

In fact, the terror of the public execution created centres of illegality: on execution days, work stopped, the taverns were full, the authorities were abused, insults or stones were thrown at the executioner, the guards and the soldiers; attempts were made to seize the condemned man, either to save him or to kill him more surely; fights broke out, and there was no better prey for thieves than the curious throng around the scaffold.

Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

Her eyes widened, convinced by the size of it that his shaft was fully erect. She blinked several times. No, she was wrong. The bulge moved, growing as she watched it. Not that I mind ya staring, love, but I've got an appointment I must keep.

Damn, I would give anything to see that man naked, Charlotte whispered. How could you only say he was 'all right'?

Would ya like to--- Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, Get a drink with me?

Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. —BILL WATTERSON

If time travel is possible, then where are the tourists from the future? –STEPHEN HAWKING

One day , would it be possible to walk through walls ? To build starships than can travel faster than the speed of life? TO READ OTHER PEOPLE'S MIND ? To become INVISIBLE ? To move object with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?? Since I was a child , I've always been fascinated by these questions.

In my field, physics, I see that most of us are engage in physics not for the money but for the sheer joy of discovery an innovation.

One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.

Why go to the stars? Because we are the descendants of those primates who chose to look over the next hill. Because we won't survive here indefinitely. Because the stars are there, beckoning with fresh horizons. —JAMES AND GREGORY BENFORD

Speculation is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction. —ELIZABETH PETERS

to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. —JOHN WHEELER

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.

Cuando alguien visitaba a Einstein en su casa, este les preguntaba: «¿Existe la luna porque un ratón la mira?». Pero, por mucho que la teoría cuántica violase el sentido común, algo había de verdad en ella: era experimentalmente correcta. Sus predicciones han sido corroboradas con hasta once decimales, lo que la convierte en la teoría más precisa de todos los tiempos.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulations, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en un esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha. Y, al apelar a otros títulos, iniciabas una cadena que ya no podía concluir sino con la muerte.

Tú no tienes madre? - No, no la tengo. Debió de interesarle mi orfandad porque oí crujir las sábanas como si su cuerpo buscara una postura más cómoda para escuchar. Pero yo no añadí nada. Al contrario, apunté la conversación hacia lo que a mí me interesaba. Lo hice con tiento, con miedo, como si a pesar de mis pocos años ya tuviese una sensación inconsciente de que pisaba terreno prohibido.

Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.