Quotes About Curiosity

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

I always tell young people: When you meet someone successful, ask them as many questions as you can. Because there's nothing more successful people love - nothing more - than talking about their successes, and you can learn a lot in that.

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Young people have grown up watching so much content, and just to find something that they haven't seen before: that's the dream. When you stumble across a show, and you say 'I haven't seen this,' that's what we want.

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

I love being scared, and I always have done. When I was younger, I was always reading books about the paranormal, UFOs, and crop circles. I liked the idea of people seeing faces in walls and twins that could communicate with each other telepathically. I really believed it, too!