Quotes About Curiosity

The surprise is on the far side. You're sure? Positive. It better not be another fairy, Seth said. What's the matter with fairies? I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it.

When I though I was utterly past feeling, you sparked my interest. I remain sufficiently curiouse to help you. I have no private agenda. You remain free to use your gifts however you choose. Seth furrowed his brow. I guess I don't feel more evil than before. Choices determine character. I can't make you evil any more than you can make me good. You made no decision to become a shadow charmer. These new abilities have been thrust upon you be circumstances beyond your control.

You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.

Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand.

Did you design the door?' 'No.' 'Who did? The Unknown Designer?

The boys sat in front of your house at dusk, the boys who still had parents. Sometimes they held Marlboros out the car Windows and even If they didn't, sparks fell from their hands.

Algunas veces es mejor no saber.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Did I ever tell you that I want to wear a big yellow smiley-face mask and then put on the CD version of Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' and then take a girl and a dog—a collie, a chow, a sharpei, it doesn't really matter—and then hook up this transfusion pump, this IV set, and switch their blood, you know, pump the dog's blood into the hardbody and vice versa, did I ever tell you this?

Who Dunnit?' profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.

So…" Kimball looks at his book helplessly. "There's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?" "Well." I sigh. "He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess." Really stumped, I offer, "He… ate a balanced diet.

It moved me away from the narcissism of childhood and into the world's mysteries—the unexplained, the taboo, the other—and drew me closer to a place of understanding and acceptance.

But if you look at everything only through the lens of your party or affiliation, and are capable of being in the same room only with people who think and vote like you, doesn't that make you somewhat uncurious and oversimplifying, passive-aggressive, locked into assuming you are riding the high moral tide, without ever wondering if you might not, in the eyes of others, be on the very bottom?

one of the truest, most honest sentences of our lives: "Wow, we don't really know.

Solving problems, learning how the universe is put together-that's what had always captivated me.

By shaping our intuition and developing our cognitive skills, evolution initiated our education in physics but our more comprehensive understanding has emerged from the force of human curiosity expressed through the language of mathematics.

I used to imagine that by studying the universe, by peeling it apart figuratively and literally, we would answer enough of the how questions to catch a glimpse of the answers to the whys.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

the Nobel Prize–winning particle physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi greeted the discovery of the muon with a less than enthusiastic Who ordered that? Nevertheless, there it was. And more was to follow.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

La pregunta definitiva: ¿por qué existe la vida? La respuesta: por el puro placer de vivir.

Wherever he went, he left a trail of bodies. The killings brought him little pleasure, though; he would rather have had an answer.