Quotes about Curiosity
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
- Walt Whitman
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
- Margaret Atwood
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
- Ben Stein
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- Thomas Jefferson
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
- Seneca
We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Lincoln
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
- Alain de Botton
One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.
- Don Piper
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
- Dale Carnegie