Quotes About Curiosity

And who is this?' Bugg asked. A shifting of vast stones—now this…this shoving aside of entire mountains. What begins here?

What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?" "Sightseeing. Your turn." He shivered. "No, that's all right.

Did they scalp you?

All you have to do is move around and meet new people to realize how dumb you really are.

Being able to slowly and objectively size up a situation is crucial. We observe. We take a curious, yet concerned, attitude. We gather information in a relaxed, thoughtful manner, but we do not rush in to fix the problem. Using the information we've gathered, we determine what action to take.

Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,

Wandering from room to room discovering another side to the moon.

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

External struggles ignite reader interest and curiosity while internal and interpersonal struggles engender empathy.

Typically, readers don't get bored because too little is happening but because too little is being promised.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us.

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

people are more voyeuristic than i would have thought

He had no sympathy for people who wanted to know how things worked, people who wanted to explore things, people who wanted to improve the systems they studied and dreamed about.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack.

to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults.