Quotes about Curiosity

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

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

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.