Quotes about Curiosity

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

Ohio has produced 23 astronauts. Tell me, what is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

But humans are a curious species. We wonder, we seek answers. Living in this vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator?

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?