Curiosity Quotes - Page 24

• There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Humanity, Mars, Earth

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Perspective, Challenges

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Brain, Survival

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• I had a healthy curiosity and would try things on - play lots of practical jokes. But it was more in my head - fantasies of "What would happen if...? Like what would happen in class if you took all your clothes off and you ran around the room?

  Andy Griffiths

  Class, Play, Clothes

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• In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

  William James

  Art, Teaching, Psychology

  William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

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• It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

  Sophia Loren

  Energy, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

  Missy Higgins

  Creative, Outlets, Therapy

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• We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Littles, Way, Form

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Opportunity, Roles

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

  John Locke

  Children, Appetite

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• Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Spirit, Incontinence, Direct

  Jeremy Taylor (1839). “Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...”, p.101

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

  Julian Huxley

  Honesty, Memories, Discovery

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• To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

  David Lodge

  Desire, Surrender, Endless

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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• Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

  Jim Morrison

  Reality, Curious, Testing

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• Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

  John Locke

  Children, Silly, Inquiry

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• Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

  Christopher Morley

  Thinking, Avid, Humanity

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• I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Conspiracy, Natural, Lost

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.

  John Grogan

  Thinking, Spunk, Pups

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• We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.

  John Newton

  Believe, Cutting, Agency

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• I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

  John Adams

  School, Knowledge, Feet

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

  John Adams

  Voting, Wish, Principles

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• We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

  Sam Harris

  Struggle, Thinking, Iron

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• Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Commitment, Opportunity, Careers

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• With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

  Joe Murray

  Tissues, Woods, Firsts

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