Quotes about Curiosity

How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

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

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.