Quotes about Curiosity

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies. 2. Don't compare your best to their worst. 3. Leave room for holy envy. (Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)

Reverence was the proper attitude of a small and curious human being in a vast and fascinating world of experience. This world included people and places as well as things.

Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.