curiosity quotes

I have wondered about time all my life.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Many admire, few know.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.