Quotes About Curiosity

Doing regular things and not just working all the time, as much as I love the work I do, it's nice to take a break and really have perspective on things and go on road trips or go hiking or travel. It keeps me alive and curious.

I have been obsessed with the local cultures during my previous trips to the likes of Korea Republic, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Chinese Hong Kong and Macau.

All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole world went from 'This is really fun' to 'This is fascinating to me'.

Traveling with my husband is great as he is a sponge for new languages and tries to learn them on our trips.

I'm always trolling for trivia.

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

I was the kid who at 12 years old went to NBC studio tours, and I would just answer all these trivia questions on the tour that the pages would ask about 'SNL'. I was that kid.

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

Nothing would make me happier if people got curious enough to actually go online to and start looking and researching the Apollo 1 fire... That would be amazing to me if people would actually go through the trouble to figure that stuff out.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

When I get bored, I get into trouble.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

I'm always fascinated by something that leaves the surface of the earth. My series, 'Rocket Man', was based on a true story of a man who put his wife's ashes into space.

I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.