Quotes about Curiosity

He pipes—he pipes—and we must follow—Jem and Carl and Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen— listen—can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Every night before I goto bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror. Sometimes I look for her footprints in the dew in the morning. Oh, Diana, don't give up your faith in the dryad!

Babies are such fascinating creatures, said Anne dreamily. They are what I heard somebody at Redmond call, 'terrific bundles of potentialities.'...

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it's such an interesting world.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The Microbe is so very small you cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.