Curiosity Quotes - Page 29

• To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Important, Done

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Book, People, House

  Nikki Gemmell (2011). “Cleave”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Swings, Views

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• I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.

  Nick Minchin

  War, Passion, Fighting

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• The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

  Hank Williams III

  Names, Rowdy, Balls

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• I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

  Gary Paulsen

  War, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

  Dean Koontz

  Ideas, Two, Numbers

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

  John Ruskin

  Knowing, Dull, Cold

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• The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Country, Anchors, Mind

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• Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

  Alan Watts

  Self, People, Wonder

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• Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.

  John Caples

  Self, Quality, Looks

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• For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail.

  John Caples

  Dozen, Succeed, Failing

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• The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

  Walt Disney

  Secret, Four, Constancy

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• Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, People

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• Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Black, Whispering

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• We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Reading, Lust

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

  Dick Cavett

  Dream, Sleep, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.5, Henry Holt and Company

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• We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorant, Able, Curious

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• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Aspiration

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• What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Victory And Defeat, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  People

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• Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

  Michael Korda

  Writing, World, Motive

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• To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, America, Needs

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Offering, Cabinets

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.

  Jenny Slate

  Taken, Self, People

  "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.

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