Quotes About Curiosity

Scientific insight made him feel something, a soaring sensation, a recognition that he could only compare to falling in love. And as he used to say: "When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas.

la ciencia es más que un cuerpo de conocimiento, es una manera de pensar.

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.

En cierto modo, la ciencia puede ser definida como el pensamiento paranoide aplicado a la naturaleza. En efecto, andamos a la búsqueda de conspiraciones naturales, de nexos entre hechos aparentemente dispares.

Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here and now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage.

I might sneak up and have a peak myself." He

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

After all, it was like that for all living things—they could never know everything they wished to know. That would never change.

of what waits just around the next corner.

while Man worked all those years to discover the secrets of life, he never managed to escape his overpowering fascination for death.

Qué hay de tu secuestro? —preguntó Menion mientras se vestía, mirando la esbelta silueta de la muchacha al otro lado de la habitación—. ¿Tienes idea de por qué querrían secuestrarte los norteños, prescindiendo de tu belleza? Sonrió con picardía. Aunque no podía ver su rostro, estaba seguro de que se habría ruborizado. Ella permaneció en silencio durante un rato antes de hablar.

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired Is he gay? No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. Is he English? she asked.

He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. "It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, Naja said, and that doesn't involve magic.

What are you babbling about?" one of the other Sisters asked, not concerned with what they saw as a dusty aphorism.

No matter how much you know, there will always be more; no one knows everything.

An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Albert grunted. Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions? Mort thought for a moment. No, he said eventually, what? There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.