Quotes About Curiosity

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.

We must not act like children reared with the narrow outlook "As it has been handed down to us".

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

Hiçbir ?ey bilmiyoruz - bu birincisi. Bu yüzden çok alçakgönüllü olmal?y?z - bu ikincisi. Bilmedi?imiz halde bildi?imizi iddia etmemeliyiz. - bu da üçüncüsü. Halka sevdirmek istedi?im yakla??m kabaca budur. Ama gelece?i pek parlak görünmüyor. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

People always say to me "What do you think you'd like to be When you grow up?" And I say, "Why, I think I'd like to be the sky Or be a plane or train or mouse Or maybe a haunted house Or something furry, rough and wild... Or maybe I will stay a child.

Es ist interessanter, einen Apfel auf dem Mond zu finden als einen Mondstein.

If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

What are you looking for?" Wade asks, seeing me peer under his couch. "Huh?" I turn back to him. "Oh, uh…I'm just checking out the rest of the place." I suddenly feel Eva rustle around in her bag. When I look down, she peeks out at me with sleepy eyes and then lazily glances over at Wade. When she sees the Muppets hanging on the wall behind him, she cocks her head

But if you could tell science like a story, I'd pay attention." -Lucy

Why are we doing the? I asked. Because looking aat a dead shark will tell us something about the ones that are still alive, Robin said.

I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow

We let the weirdness in.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.