Quotes About Curiosity

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

I think if you're an interesting person, you don't have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

Before an interview, I'll go down a rabbit hole of research - it's amazing how many little nuggets you can pick up from watching YouTube videos.

You never, ever leave art school. It's important to keep finding inspiration. I look at YouTube videos and think, 'How would I do that?' I like experimenting with things. For instance, drying paintings off too quickly in a microwave can look strangely beautiful.

I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.

I always keep a zeal to learn new things especially when I am not aware about it.

My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

When you go see a magic trick, the first thing you ask is, 'How do they do that.' That's what I hope the kids are saying when they leave the matches.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.