Quotes about Curiosity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.